Re: [RFD] Ignore rules

From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Date: May 16, 2005, 16:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4288C4AD.6060004@dgreaves.com>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.05.16.09.35.22.73817@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:

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>Hi, Jon Seymour wrote:
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>>a. pushing the ignore logic into the core git tools such as git-ls-files
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>>b. including the current ignore .* rule as a default ignore rule that
>>can be overridden by a .gitignore file
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>I'd say YES to both.
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>My preferred ignore file logic would be:
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>- stop at first match (that's more efficient)
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more efficient true - but then surely 98% of the time you have to check _all_ patterns since files aren't generally ignored. And the ability to override earlier matches makes life much easier. So I say no shortcuts, last pattern to match decides ignore/accept status

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>- !pattern prevents exclusion of matching files
>- bash-style shell globs, except that ...
>  - a pattern that starts with / is a regexp
>  - * doesn't cross directory boundaries, but ** does
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>- I don't need a per-repository (i.e. non-checked-in/propagated)
>  ignore file.
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I agree. But for the sake of checking a couple of files it makes sense to define a complete set of locations.

David