Re: svn:ignore property ignored while adding files

Julian Fitzell writes:
> > If we are going to use flags, it seems more intuitive to me to always
> > honor svn:ignore unless some flag (--force?) is used.
>
> I have to weigh in strongly in support of this. Presumably you have
> files being ignored in svn:ignore for a reason. If you really want to
> override that, you can easily specify --force.

Bah, Humbug. The only thing more annoying would be if '-i' was the
default action for the 'rm' command. I typed the command line. I
shouldn't have to "force" anything.

> If we don't honour svn:ignore by default, I'm going to spend my time
> removing generated files that other developers have checked in by
> mistake even though I set up svn:ignore properly.

Get new developers or make your hiring process more stringent.

Michael

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Received on Wed Mar 5 22:41:07 2003