Support a .bazelignore file

Add suport for a file .bazelignore, allowing to specify directories
that should be ignored. So far, even for the "ignored" directories,
the directory structure, including following symlinks, still has
to be well founded. We plan to lift that restriction in the future,
but already with the restriction, it is an improvement over the
status quo.

RELNOTES: bazel now supports a .bazelignore file specifying
  directories to be ignored; however, these directories still
  have to be well founded and, in particular, may not contain
  symlink cycles.

Improves on #4888.

Change-Id: Icfe0b7f5c35eceea16e28944ca7711431b71271a
PiperOrigin-RevId: 208050372

3 files changed, 65 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/skyframe/BazelSkyframeExecutorConstants.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/skyframe/BazelSkyframeExecutorConstants.java
index f7b19ce28f..331a4e4836 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/skyframe/BazelSkyframeExecutorConstants.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/skyframe/BazelSkyframeExecutorConstants.java
@@ -28,8 +28,19 @@ public class BazelSkyframeExecutorConstants {
   public static final ImmutableSet<PathFragment> HARDCODED_BLACKLISTED_PACKAGE_PREFIXES =
       ImmutableSet.of();
 
+  /**
+   * The file .bazelignore can be used to specify directories to be ignored by bazel
+   *
+   * <p>This is intended for directories containing non-bazel sources (either generated,
+   * or versioned sources built by other tools) that happen to contain a file called BUILD.</p>
+   *
+   * <p>For the time being, this ignore functionality is limited by the fact that it is
+   * applied only after pattern expansion. So if a pattern expansion fails (e.g., due to
+   * symlink-cycles) and therefore fails the build, this ignore functionality currently
+   * has no chance to kick in.</p>
+   */
   public static final PathFragment ADDITIONAL_BLACKLISTED_PACKAGE_PREFIXES_FILE =
-      PathFragment.EMPTY_FRAGMENT;
+      PathFragment.create(".bazelignore");
 
   public static final CrossRepositoryLabelViolationStrategy
       CROSS_REPOSITORY_LABEL_VIOLATION_STRATEGY = CrossRepositoryLabelViolationStrategy.ERROR;
diff --git a/src/test/shell/bazel/BUILD b/src/test/shell/bazel/BUILD
index e8fd9c09a6..eafe9aadea 100644
--- a/src/test/shell/bazel/BUILD
+++ b/src/test/shell/bazel/BUILD
@@ -417,6 +417,14 @@ sh_test(
 )
 
 sh_test(
+    name = "bazelignore_test",
+    size = "medium",
+    srcs = ["bazelignore_test.sh"],
+    data = [":test-deps"],
+    tags = ["no_windows"],
+)
+
+sh_test(
     name = "workspace_resolved_test",
     size = "medium",
     srcs = ["workspace_resolved_test.sh"],
diff --git a/src/test/shell/bazel/bazelignore_test.sh b/src/test/shell/bazel/bazelignore_test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3e6aa1c601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/shell/bazel/bazelignore_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2016 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# An end-to-end test that Bazel's experimental UI produces reasonable output.
+
+# Load the test setup defined in the parent directory
+CURRENT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+source "${CURRENT_DIR}/../integration_test_setup.sh" \
+  || { echo "integration_test_setup.sh not found!" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+#### SETUP #############################################################
+
+set -e
+
+test_broken_BUILD_files_ignored() {
+    rm -rf work && mkdir work && cd work
+    touch WORKSPACE
+    mkdir -p ignoreme/deep/reallydep/stillignoreme
+    echo This is a broken BUILD file > ignoreme/BUILD
+    echo This is a broken BUILD file > ignoreme/deep/BUILD
+    echo This is a broken BUILD file > ignoreme/deep/reallydep/BUILD
+    echo This is a broken BUILD file > ignoreme/deep/reallydep/stillignoreme/BUILD
+    touch BUILD
+    bazel build ... && fail "Expected failure" || :
+
+    echo; echo
+    echo ignoreme > .bazelignore
+    bazel build ... \
+        || fail "directory mentioned in .bazelrc not ignored as it should"
+}
+
+run_suite "Integration tests for .bazelignore"