From 77b0d645f58a2f20786aa2876e25ec56fef1be5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Agathiyan Bragadeesh <agabra02@e127300.arm.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 17:58:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add gitignore anchors to denote generated files

These anchors encapsulate gitignore patterns which typically ignore
files generated, so that scripts can be used to comment and uncomment
these patterns for releases when we need the generated files in the
repository.

Signed-off-by: Agathiyan Bragadeesh <agabra02@e127300.arm.com>
---
 library/.gitignore        |  3 ++-
 programs/.gitignore       | 10 ++++++----
 tests/.gitignore          | 12 +++++++-----
 visualc/VS2013/.gitignore | 10 ++++++----
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/library/.gitignore b/library/.gitignore
index b4dc918912..5a29a43b77 100644
--- a/library/.gitignore
+++ b/library/.gitignore
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ libmbed*
 *.sln
 *.vcxproj
 
-# Automatically generated files
+###START_GENERATED_FILES###
 /error.c
 /version_features.c
 /ssl_debug_helpers_generated.c
 /psa_crypto_driver_wrappers.c
+###END_GENERATED_FILES###
diff --git a/programs/.gitignore b/programs/.gitignore
index d11db9e6b8..a641c31c45 100644
--- a/programs/.gitignore
+++ b/programs/.gitignore
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
 *.sln
 *.vcxproj
 
-# Generated source files
-/psa/psa_constant_names_generated.c
-/test/query_config.c
-
 aes/crypt_and_hash
 cipher/cipher_aead_demo
 hash/generic_sum
@@ -75,5 +71,11 @@ x509/crl_app
 x509/load_roots
 x509/req_app
 
+###START_GENERATED_FILES###
+# Generated source files
+/psa/psa_constant_names_generated.c
+/test/query_config.c
+
 # Generated data files
 pkey/keyfile.key
+###END_GENERATED_FILES###
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
index 6db65d1d38..973ebb5083 100644
--- a/tests/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 *.sln
 *.vcxproj
 
-# Generated source files
-/suites/*.generated.data
-/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto_storage_format.v[0-9]*.data
-/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto_storage_format.current.data
-
 *.log
 /test_suite*
 data_files/mpi_write
@@ -20,3 +15,10 @@ include/test/instrument_record_status.h
 src/libmbed*
 
 libtestdriver1/*
+
+###START_GENERATED_FILES###
+# Generated source files
+/suites/*.generated.data
+/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto_storage_format.v[0-9]*.data
+/suites/test_suite_psa_crypto_storage_format.current.data
+###END_GENERATED_FILES###
diff --git a/visualc/VS2013/.gitignore b/visualc/VS2013/.gitignore
index d3da304f78..a9ded4aab2 100644
--- a/visualc/VS2013/.gitignore
+++ b/visualc/VS2013/.gitignore
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-# Files automatically generated by generate_visualc_files.pl
-/mbedTLS.sln
-/*.vcxproj
-
 # Files that may be left over from check-generated-files.sh
 /*.bak
 
@@ -12,3 +8,9 @@
 /Release/
 /*.vcxproj.filters
 /*.vcxproj.user
+
+###START_GENERATED_FILES###
+# Files automatically generated by generate_visualc_files.pl
+/mbedTLS.sln
+/*.vcxproj
+###END_GENERATED_FILES###