> > I agree with Karl that such a line is highly unlikely to be used in
> > existing ignore rules such that it should not affect backward
> > compatibility in practice.
> >
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-03/0781.shtml
>
> Agreed, and if we were still worried about compatibility, we'd just
> start such meta-syntactic lines with "/", like
>
> / option: case-insensitive
> *.txt
> *.obj
> / option: case-sensitive
> readme
>
> ...or something along those lines.
>
>
> > Or maybe global-ignores could be changed into a section by itself,
> > just like auto-props is:
> >
> > [global-ignores]
> > *.bak
> > *.o
> > *.lo
> >
> > I like this best, as this would have the advantage that it could then
> > use exactly the same syntax as svn:ignore for setting the case
> > sensitivity mode. Specifying global-ignores the "old" way would still
> > be supported for backwards compatibility but would remain case-
> > sensitive.
>
> Yup.
>
> Erik, I don't think this discussion is moot. There *are* things we can
> do here. It may be that for some reason we decide to do nothing, but
> compatibility concerns need not force the decision, fortunately.
Ok. Assuming that you'd want the same for global-ignores, how does
this proposal map to global-ignores (which is only a single line!)?
Bye,
Erik.
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