Mark Phippard wrote:
> On 4/26/07, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
>> This division seems somewhat arbitrary to me. The reason folks are
>> seeing
>> problems with the feature so far is that now the conflict files are
>> matching
>> globs meant for versioned files (*.c, *.java). Globs don't care about
>> file
>> contents or line-based merge algorithms.
>
> True, but so far the examples provided where this was a problem were
> an IDE that built .java files automatically and a make script that
> built .c files automatically. Neither of these type tools would have
> a problem with an extra .jpg file or .doc file lying around.
>
> If this was not a global setting, I would not bring it up. But if I
> mainly want this feature for Word documents, but I do most of my
> development in Java, I am kind of stuck. I pretty much have to turn
> the feature off. If this were a per-project setting I might turn it
> on for my project/repository where my Word docs are stored and leave
> it off everywhere else.
>
> So my thought was to attempt a compromise setting.
This feature request, fulfilled by tweaking a single function in
update_editor.c, is starting to get out of hand.
I understand the reasoning for a compromise setting, but it's the wrong
compromise line to draw. A better one might be to make the feature just
take a list of file extensions you want to preserve. I was just about to
commit the boolean on/off code change (it's done and tested). I can pretty
easily do the list-of-extensions-to-preserve thing (small change from where
my patch already sits).
But I'm not going to code on this any more until there's some consensus in
this thread. Okey dokey? :-)
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
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Received on Thu Apr 26 19:56:26 2007