From 36d5afc4f6177fe46fa69da0db759f44c1b71194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armando Montanez <amontanez@google.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 10:12:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update Bazel pin, ignore build-* directories

Updates the Bazel pin to 8.1.0 so that build-* directories can be
properly ignored.
---
 .bazelignore  |  4 ----
 .bazelrc      |  4 ++++
 .bazelversion |  2 +-
 REPO.bazel    | 10 ++++++++++
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .bazelignore
 create mode 100644 REPO.bazel

diff --git a/.bazelignore b/.bazelignore
deleted file mode 100644
index a086fff4b..000000000
--- a/.bazelignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Don't accidentally pick up external CMake deps with Bazel build files.
-build
-# Don't treat submodules as part of this project.
-lib
diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index 96b4eca24..8eae3bc20 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@ common --host_per_file_copt=external/.*@-w
 
 # Produce useful output when the build fails.
 common --verbose_failures
+
+# Silence warnings about old bazel_dep pins. Bazel 8 brings along newer ones,
+# but we can support Bazel 7 (for now).
+common --check_direct_dependencies=off
diff --git a/.bazelversion b/.bazelversion
index b26a34e47..8104cabd3 100644
--- a/.bazelversion
+++ b/.bazelversion
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.2.1
+8.1.0
diff --git a/REPO.bazel b/REPO.bazel
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..031d5dd9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/REPO.bazel
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+ignore_directories(
+    [
+        # Don't accidentally pick up external CMake deps with Bazel build files.
+        "cmake-*",
+        "build",
+        "build-*",
+        # Don't treat submodules as part of this project.
+        "lib",
+    ],
+)