From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:14:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] update cg-* to use cg-Xignore 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 told me that... > Petr Baudis wrote: > > >Dear diary, on Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:24:42AM CEST, I got a letter > >where David Greaves told me that... > > > > > >>Petr Baudis wrote: > >> > >> > >Makes sense, ok. > > > >What about cg-commit? You already even added it. > > > > > > 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. > >>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. > >> > >> > > > >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. ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor