Re: [EGIT] [PATCH v1 1/1] Add an ignored icon

From: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <49A3BDC3.8030809@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200902240806.38710.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> tisdag 24 februari 2009 00:59:30 skrev Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com>:
>> Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>> Add an ignored icon to the label decorations page and make
>>> sure that it is actually decorated: from now on do not ignore
>>> ignored resources during decoration.
>> The reason this was not added in the original series was because that's
>> kind of the point of ignoring a resource -- you don't want any
>> information about it. Also, none of the other team plugins provide
>> decorations for ignored resources-
> 
> "Ignored" in this context does not mean unimportant.  It means we will
> not track it in git, which is quite important.

True, it's important. Untracked already has a decoration (the '?'), and tracked files have the yellow database icon. I'm just saying the convention so far in Eclipse has been to use non-decoration (no ? or yellow db icon) to signal ignored resources.

Tor Arne