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Re: Feature request: ignore-on-commit setting in repository

From: Felix Saphir <felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:09:27 +0100

Am 01.11.2010 16:40, schrieb Jaap Taal:
> What I forgot to point out: With all of the suggested workarounds,
> all checkouts need to be configured before they work, so a user
> action is needed, if there are lot's of files (like env configs, but
> also mock database files (e.g. sqlite)) you need a readme.txt...
>
> We want to avoid this without scripting everyting. Also we want to
> apply this "auto ignore-on-commit" to existing project, so tailoring
> our software towards svn (which is a bad idea) is something we can't
> do...
>
> Right now we have a list of templates to copy, but when somebody
> updates the template nobody get's noticed automatically, whilst
> having the ignore on commit can actually merge incoming (new
> settings) with your changed config.
>
> So ignore-on-commit is ideal, but not automatic (you need to know
> which files to add to ignore on commit).

How would ignore-on-commit magically notify users of an update? How
would ignore-on-commit magically merge changes in the template to a copy
of that file? If you put the customised files under version control,
then this is what you have to deal with.

Felix

P.S. Please quote some context

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