Merge pull request #78908 from zorbathut/pr_gitignore

Add static check for overzealous .gitignores and fix an example of such.

misc/scripts/gitignore_check.sh

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+set -uo pipefail
+shopt -s globstar
+
+echo -e ".gitignore validation..."
+
+# Get a list of files that exist in the repo but are ignored.
+
+# The --verbose flag also includes files un-ignored via ! prefixes.
+# We filter those out with a somewhat awkward `awk` directive.
+	# (Explanation: Split each line by : delimiters,
+	# see if the actual gitignore line shown in the third field starts with !,
+	# if it doesn't, print it.)
+
+# ignorecase for the sake of Windows users.
+
+output=$(git -c core.ignorecase=true check-ignore --verbose --no-index **/* | \
+    awk -F ':' '{ if ($3 !~ /^!/) print $0 }')
+
+# Then we take this result and return success if it's empty.
+if [ -z "$output" ]; then
+    exit 0
+else
+	# And print the result if it isn't.
+    echo "$output"
+    exit 1
+fi