[ARROW-7949] [Developer] Update to '.gitignore' to not track user specific 'cpp/Brewfile.lock.json' file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: Developer Tools
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: macOS-10.15.3
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24168
• Assignee: Tarek Allam
• Reporter: Tarek Allam
• Created: 26/Feb/20 17:50
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:57
• Resolved: 27/Feb/20 12:17

Description

In the developer guides for Python, there is a suggestion for users on macOS to use Homebrew to install all dependencies required for building Arrow C++. This creates a 'cpp/Brewfile.lock.json' file is specific to the system it sits on.

It would be desirable for this not to be tracked by version control. To prevent this accidental addition, perhaps it should be ignored in the gitignore file for the respository

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6494