The project I saw this with was a Java project which standardized on a
build environment (ant) but not an editor/IDE (Eclipse v2 and v3,
JEdit, Netbeans, Emacs and possibly JDEE, vim ...). If Joe Smith
leaves, his development environment is useless anyway.
-David Waite
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:32:48 -0600, Steve Greenland <steveg@lsli.com> wrote:
> 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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