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Re: disregarding svn:global-ignores

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 18:31:06 +0000 (GMT)

Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> Julian Foad wrote:
>> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> > Perfect, thanks.  I think not-overriding for add/import is fine: for
>> > 'import' only the repository files are affected, and for 'add' files
>> > matching the pattern can be specified explicitly in the argv targets
>> > (and auto-props added can be modified or stripped after 'add' and
>> > before 'commit').
>>
>> Am I the only one going "Eww!" on reading this?
>>
>> We have three ways of specifying ignores, and we have an option that
>> disregards them, only in one cammand it disregards all of the ways and
>> in two other commands the option only disregards two of the ways.  And
>> we say "sure, that sounds perfect".  It doesn't sound fine to me, it
>> sounds horrible.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> Do 'add' and 'import' already take the '--no-ignore' flag?  My answer
> was assuming they didn't.

They do.

> Also Julian you might want to review the semantics of svn:auto-props?
> According to the wiki page there is no way to override or ignore those
> upon add/import, either - I'm not completely happy with that.

Thanks, I'll try to review that too.

- Julian
Received on 2012-11-06 19:31:43 CET

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