git tree is significantly dirtied after running test suite

[RyanGlScott]

After running the Haddock tests through GHC's test suite, the haddock tree is left cluttered with several files that dirty the git status:

$ git status
On branch visible-dependent-quantification-take-3
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        haddock-test/src/Test/Haddock.hi
        haddock-test/src/Test/Haddock/Config.hi
        haddock-test/src/Test/Haddock/Process.hi
        haddock-test/src/Test/Haddock/Utils.hi
        haddock-test/src/Test/Haddock/Xhtml.hi
        hoogle-test/Main.hi
        html-test/Main.hi
        hypsrc-test/Main.hi
        latex-test/Main.hi

Can these be added to .gitignore?

[harpocrates]

I forget what the ghc option is to say: "don't write out any interface files!", but that should also be added to haddock(Html|Hoogle|Latex|Hypsrc)Test.

[RyanGlScott]

That would be a nice thing to add. But is there any reason not to also add *.hi to Haddock's .gitignore as well? (This is what GitHub's standard .gitignore template for Haskell does, as one data point in favor of this.)

[harpocrates]

Oh no, I'm in support of that too, hence my thumbs up! TBH, I'm surprised this isn't something we don't already have.

[harpocrates]

Fixed in 50cf001 and ghc/ghc@e2ae52c.