Re: svn:ignore property ignored while adding files

Michael Price wrote:

> Well, I'm only a release manager and not a developer but I'm -1 on
> having add check svn:ignore.
>
> If I type 'svn add baz' then I want baz added regardless of whether or
> not its being "ignored". Ignores shouldn't override explicitly added
> files.
>
> Now, as for the globbing issue, this is often handled by the shell. So
> if there are files foo.xyz and bar.xyz in a directory then 'svn add
> *.xyz' will be expanded to 'svn add bar.xyz foo.xyz' by your
> shell. Subversion will see two explicitly named files and it should add
> both regardless of the current ignore property.
>
> I know what I'm doing. The commands I'm running shouldn't second guess
> me.
>
> Michael

This seems inconsistent to me. Either Subversion ignores files in
svn:ignore or it doesn't. I don't think it should be based on the
subcommand. If you can say that svn:ignore is only used when a
subcommand is recursive, then it's consistent (but I think less
intuitive).

cmpilato@collab.net wrote:

> Yeah, 'svn add' should not bother with svn:ignore. 'svn add -R'
> should, though (IMHO), but should also recognize the --no-ignores
> parameter. 'svn import' should behave the same way.

If we are going to use flags, it seems more intuitive to me to always
honor svn:ignore unless some flag (--force?) is used.

Example:
bash> ls
my_file1.c my_file2.c vendor_lib.o
my_file1.o my_file2.o
bash> svn add *
Added my_file1.c
Added my_file2.c
bash> svn add --force vendor_lib.o

I suspect that people are going to use globbing more often than they
want to override svn:ignore.

The preceding is based on my understanding of svn:ignore which could
be 100% wrong since I've never used it. Since I haven't used it yet,
I'm only arguing for consistency and intuitiveness.

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