Write bats logs to tmp or log

[jasonkarns]

Can we configure bats to write these to tmp/ or log/? (I'm surprised those aren't already ignored patterns since I usually do that by default.)

I much prefer gitignores to have a few limited, and consistent patterns. And to ensure the project follows larger trends and conventions, than to have a bunch of one-off ignore patterns for each separate tool and file. (This is especially true for libraries that have packaging, like npm that would require excluding those additional files from the distributed package separately from version control config.)

This is an opportunity to improve bats itself, I think, to lean on prior art and write its logs to tmp or log instead of defaulting to its own bespoke directory? But even if the bats default remains, we could enforce a neater location?

[martin-schulze-vireso]

Are you referring to .bats/run-logs? If so, they are Not logs for human consumption. They are optional (you have to create the directory manually), per project, and used for the --filter-status feature.

I would propose to move this discussion to the core repo or make it an org level discussion.