Re: [PATCH 1/7] .git directory should be ignored

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 3, 2007, 22:05 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm6u7zle.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <15268.1172917083@localhost>

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:

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> Add .git to the list of extensions to be ignored
>
> Signed-off-by: Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org>
> ---
>  contrib/emacs/vc-git.el |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el b/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
> index a2d3932..3d43ca0 100644
> --- a/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
> +++ b/contrib/emacs/vc-git.el
> @@ -149,4 +149,7 @@
>  ;;    (and (looking-at "[0-9a-f]+")
>  ;;         (buffer-substring (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))))
>  
> +;;;###autoload
> +(add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".git/")
> +
>  (provide 'vc-git)

I am no Emacs vc expert to judge, but I wonder if it is kosher to muck with that global variable from a vc backend.

The above does mirror what pcl-cvs does for "CVS/" but I notice that vc-cvs.el does not do so, neither vc-rcs.el excludes "RCS/".