From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:08:27 GMT Subject: Re: [EGit PATCH] IgnoreAction to add to .gitignore files Message-ID: <200904240108.27610.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: torsdag 23 april 2009 23:12:40 skrev Alex Blewitt : > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:09, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > > torsdag 23 april 2009 22:36:49 skrev Alex Blewitt : > >> I don't know of any other SCM that allows you to un-ignore files in > >> the way that Git does; my guess is that most people wouldn't miss it > >> if it weren't there. A .gitignore customised editor is probably > >> overkill too - after all, you can just open it up in a text editor > >> and > >> make changes yourself. I've amended a few .cvsignore files in my time > >> manually, but I wouldn't want to overcomplicate the menu for that. > > > > Why do we want a plugin for git? We have the command line. > > I mean, it's trivial to open up the .gitignore file in Eclipse as a > text file. I was doing that to check the implementation worked whilst > adding entries to the .gitignore. > > I've seen all manner of bad UIs in applications created because the > developer wanted 'total flexibility' and exposed everything via the > UI. For something as simple as ignoring a file, which is already a > pretty standardised operation across SCMs, I don't see any benefit in > making it more complicated than it needs to be. A bad GUI is worse than no GUI, so we don't want that. We're not that desperate. -- robin