Re: [PATCH 2/2] update cg-* to use cg-Xignore

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 14, 2005, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20050514151428.GM3905@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <42860EB0.9000105@dgreaves.com>

Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 04:44:00PM CEST, I got a letter where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
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> >Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:24:42AM CEST, I got a letter
> >where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...
> >  
> >
> >>Petr Baudis wrote:
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> >>
> >Makes sense, ok.
> >
> >What about cg-commit? You already even added it.
> >  
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> I'd use the same argument - you want to commit files changed in a directory:
> find src | xargs cg-commit
> find Documentation | xargs cg-commit
> I agree it's less compelling.
> I admit I was primarily just making sure that all cg-* commands behaved
> the same way.

Thinking about it, I think we can actually live with it. I agree that it's more consistent.

> I also don't have an ignore-override - do you think we need one?

I'd prefer CVS-like format. That is, lines starting with ! are exceptions to previous ignore rules.

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> >>No, cogito has an ignore.
> >>git has a less powerful exclude.
> >>cogito users won't need exclude but power-users aren't barred from it.
> >>    
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> >I think having two essentially redundant things is useless. But you'll
> >be able to use the --exclude powers now since you have to fall back to
> >good ol' globs.
> >  
> >
> unless...

See my other mail that I'd prefer globs as the main ignoring mechanism anyway. ;-)

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