Re: svn:ignore vs. .cvsignore

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:09:04AM -0700, David Waite wrote:
> So you are suggesting that even though the project has not
> standardized on tools, the repository should be changed to accomidate
> them via an ever-growing array of ignore patterns? It seems if
> you truely are using a wide array of tools, this growth becomes
> unmanageable - you cannot tell which patterns are actually in use, or
> by which people. With the svn:ignore property it is also extremely
> difficult (but certainly not impossible) to track down who added a
> particular entry.

If you development environment is that out-of-control, then the growth
of your svn:ignore property is the least of your worries. What are you
going to do when Joe Smith leaves, and you can no longer build his
part of the project? I'm all for letting people use the tools they're
comfortable with, but mostly what we're talking about here is things
like editor backup files and other spurious stuff, and as the upstream
poster says, if *any* of those conflict with filename patterns that need
to be revision controlled, a localized svn:ignore is not going to help.

So yes, add the patterns to the svn:ignore property. If you can't trust
your developers to add proper log comments ("Added .*~ for emacs backup
files"), then, again, you've got problems that are outside the scope of
SVN.

Steve

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