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Re: two questions (and a proposed patch) regarding svn:ignore

From: 'Stefan Sperling' <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:11:16 +0100

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:11:09AM +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02, 'Stefan Sperling' wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:12:42PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote:
> > > In this libsvn_client_addX() case it would be adding an extra boolean to
> > > pass to the new svn_client_addX() function... And passing the right value
> > > from the wrapper in deprecated.c.
> >
> > Right, no problem. So we add svn_client_add5, with boolean
> > 'no_global_ignores' and 'no_svn_ignores' (better name anyone?).
>
> While we're revving it, consider this API design point. We pass the list
> of global ignores in to the function through the CTX parameter. It seems
> stupid to have an additional parameter that says whether to ignore the
> global ignores. Instead, the caller should set
> CTX->config['config:miscellany:global-ignores'] to empty before calling
> this function.
>
> Makes sense?

Yes, it does, thanks for the suggestion.

Stefan
Received on 2010-02-03 10:11:59 CET

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