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Re: Ignore every file except XX*

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:00:19 +0200

On 12.06.2020 08:24, Matt Simmons wrote:
> Have you considered a pre-commit hook to deny anything not matching
> your rule?

A pre-commit hook doesn't see the contents of the working copy, it's
completely unsuitable for this use case.

-- Brane

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:21 PM Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org
> <mailto:brane_at_apache.org>> wrote:
>
> On 12.06.2020 07:30, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response!
> >  
> >
> >     The way I solve a similar case is to set svn:ignore to '*',
> i.e., to
> >     ignore everything, then just 'svn add' the files I want
> under version
> >     control. It's not ideal, as you'd miss the files you're
> interested in.
> >
> >
> > Already doing this. But sometimes we forget to 'svn add' a new file
> > which then doesn't show up as modified. User error, surely, but
> if the
> > mistake can be avoided :-)
> >  
> >
> >     About feature design -- unfortunately we can't just invent a
> >     syntax that
> >     would invert the meaning of the glob patterns in svn:ignore,
> as that
> >     would break backward compatibility. Any ideas for a solution
> would be
> >     most welcome.
> >
> >
> > Exactly my thoughts. The only solution I see is to add a new
> property
> > svn:unignore which is applied after (or in conjunction with) the
> > svn:ignore property. A file is ignored if it matches the svn:ignore
> > glob pattern AND NOT matches the svn:unignore glob pattern. If
> > svn:unignore is empty (or non-existent), the behaviour should be
> > exactly the same as today.
> >
> > The code should be reasonably simple (but I have not analyzed if it
> > would affect anything in the public interface) - only question if
> > maintainers think a new property is a good idea.
>
> I can't think of a way to solve this without introducing a new
> property
> (actually, two new properties, the other has to be the opposite of
> svn:global-ignores). The code would, indeed, be quite simple; the
> complex part has already been done, and adding the additional "and not
> matches X" logic should be trivial.
>
> Care to move this over to dev@ with a patch?
>
> -- Brane
>
> --
> "Today, vegetables... Tomorrow, the world!" 
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