87eb0adf61763660f65ec29bacf3d8f138c4b56d
lrnassar
  Fri May 15 15:11:59 2026 -0700
Move rtsUpdate's audit log out of the kent tree to ~/.rtsUpdate.log, so it stays as a local audit trail without producing an untracked file (or merge-conflict-prone tracked file) in src/hg/utils/rts/. refs #32768

diff --git src/hg/utils/rts/rtsUpdate src/hg/utils/rts/rtsUpdate
index 3213c3f480b..3f0f932cff3 100755
--- src/hg/utils/rts/rtsUpdate
+++ src/hg/utils/rts/rtsUpdate
@@ -5,31 +5,31 @@
 
 import argparse
 import datetime
 import getpass
 import pathlib
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import time
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 HOME = pathlib.Path.home()
 RTS_DIR = HOME / "kent/src/hg/utils/rts"
 INC_DIR = HOME / "kent/src/hg/htdocs/inc"
-LOGFILE = RTS_DIR / "rtsUpdate.log"
+LOGFILE = HOME / ".rtsUpdate.log"
 VERBOTEN = RTS_DIR / "verboten.lst"
 
 TARGET_USER = "View"
 
 HOSTS = {
     "dev":  ("hgwdev",        "hgcentraltest"),
     "beta": ("hgwbeta",       "hgcentralbeta"),
     "rr":   ("genome-centdb", "hgcentral"),
 }
 
 VALIDATE_URL = {
     "dev":  "https://hgwdev.gi.ucsc.edu",
     "beta": "https://hgwbeta.soe.ucsc.edu",
     "rr":   "https://genome.ucsc.edu",
 }