> From: Mix [mailto:mixtim@acm.org]
> Sent: 09 August 2002 14:54
> Sander Striker wrote:
>> Currently we have some hardcoded 'default' ignores:
>>
>> static const char * const ignores[] =$
>> {
>> "*.o", "*.lo", "*.la", "#*#", "*.rej", "*~", ".#*",
>> /* what else? */
>> NULL
>> };
>>
>> Personally I think we should get rid of those. If
>> you wish to ignore something be explicit about it.
>
> I'd go crazy if I had to do the silly 'svn propset svn:ignore' thing
> everytime I wanted to stop seeing object files and all the crap emacs
> leaves around when you run it.
The problem is that this is very dependend on the applications you
use. For example, MS VC++ leaves around *.obj files instead of *.o
files. *.lo and *.la is something you won't see on windows (AFAIK),
instead you'll find *.dll. I'm sure there are a lot of other things
that are platform specific. I personally would only like to ignore
the things subversion leaves about by default.
Alternatively we could invent an
ignore="<all the stuff you want to ignore by default>"
directive in your local svn config file. This line could hold the
current defaults by default, but at least people are able to change
it without a recompile.
> I like cvs's .cvsignore files better but
> I can live with svn:ignore as long as svn ignores things that are always
> junk like the list above. I mean really, when have you ever needed to
> add a file matching one of the expressions above? I'd be willing to bet
> if you ever did then it was a special case and you've probably only done
> it (on purpose) once in your life.
You'd be surprised what people do ;)
>> Secondly it would be very nice to pass --ignore <pattern>
>> or --ignore -F <filename> on the commandline. This
>> would indeed be very helpfull for svn import, but could
>> also be usefull for svn status.
>
> I agree -- that would be a very useful feature.
Sander
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Received on Fri Aug 9 15:44:00 2002