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Re: cvsignore
"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> w/o having tested this, I thought CVSIGNORE was a list of absolute
> patterns to ignore (not unlike the *lines* in a .cvsignore file). What
> I want is a list of filenames that is used per-directory to contain the
> patterns to ignore. E.g.,
>
> export CVSIGNORE=".cvsignore;.cvsignore-personal"
>
> or whatever.
Yep, exactly what I meant. I was using confusing words.
> > Yes, that would be a good thing, and it would be a compatible
> > extension. It would be harder to implement and I don't need it.
> > Which files are ignored is not a critical thing. I don't need to be
> > in sync with the .cvsignore from the repo.
>
> No but then it's a maintenance headache and a possible source of an
> unintended checkin if the per-module .cvsignore adds a new file, and
> your CVS doesn't ignore it and then you check it in, not realizing it is
> to be ignored.
I think that the maintainance problem will not amount to a headache.
That's where we differ. Maybe I'm right, or maybe you are right. I
don't have the experience to say for sure.
When CVS would only be written in Scheme, then you would get your list
of filenames in no time, but I don't feel like doing this in C right
now. ;)
- Marius