Re: [PATCH] Re: .svnignore functionality

Mark Benedetto King wrote:

>>>> % svn proplist dir/
>>>> svn:ignore : *.so *.o *~
>>>>
>>>>...rather than see a bunch of newline-separated patterns.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, sure. Of course, that will make patterns-with-spaces tricky,
>>>but people who put spaces in file names deserve what they get.
>>>
>>No! This attitude is simply wrong. Spaces in file names are quite
>>reasonable, and are in fact often used on systems Subversion runs (will
>>run) on.
>>
>
>It's also reasonable to have newlines in file names.
>
Oh, no doubt. Very reasonable indeed. I do that often, especially if I
want to put the filename in a makefile.

>
>
>We could choose to ignore this issue for right now; the tokens
>themselves can have wildcards, which could be used to represent
>the forbidden whitespace characters.
>
>Of course, this introduces a major problem; how can we ignore a
>file called "\n" without ignoring all the files?
>
>--ben
>
>

-- 
Brane �ibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org