Stefan Sperling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the book says:
>
> Subversion uses the ignore patterns —- both the global
> and the per-directory lists --
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to determine which files should not be swept into the version
> control system as part of a larger recursive addition or import operation.
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
>
> When adding a recursive directory tree, we only heed the global ignores
> list.
I wonder if, when documenting that bit, I was thinking about the scenario
where you are running 'svn add -R --force' atop an already versioned
directory tree, just trying to pick up any unversioned stuff in that tree.
> My second question is due to a question in #svn.
> A user noticed that svn add adds files and directories which are
> explicitly mentioned on the command line, even if they match an svn:ignore
> pattern (I've tested with 1.5.x, 1.6.x, and trunk). Why do we have an
> --no-ignores option for svn add, documented as:
>
> --no-ignore : disregard default and svn:ignore property ignores
>
> but the default behaviour of 'svn add path' is to add the path even
> if it is listed in the svn:ignore property of its parent directory?
> I am leaning towards applying the patch below to fix this problem.
>
> But I wanted to ask before committing this, in case I'm missing
> something. This bug just seems too obvious :) Maybe there is a good
> reason for the current behaviour?
The --no-ignore option aside, I'd argue that the current behavior is more
obvious than silently not honoring a user's request to 'svn add' something.
$ svn add foo.o
$
Of course, I realize that most folks wouldn't do the above. They'd instead
do something like:
$ svn add *
and would reasonably expect that stuff configured to be ignored would be
ignored (and it isn't, right, because the wildcard is expanded by the shell).
So maybe we could benefit from a pair of changes here: the one you
included, but also some notification for 'svn add' (and 'svn import') that
reports either explicitly-named or reached-through-recursion ignored items.
$ svn add foo.o
Ignoring 'foo.o'. ### or maybe just: "I foo.c"
$ svn add foo.c --no-ignore
A (bin) foo.c
$ svn add some-dir
A some-dir
A some-dir/foo.c
A some-dir/foo.h
Ignoring 'some-dir/foo.o'
A some-dir/lib.c
...
Whaddaya say?
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Received on 2010-02-02 17:37:22 CET