Ignore use case: explicit ignore necessary?

[Jo Vermeulen]

Hello again :-)

I was reading the "ignore" use case [1], and wondered if ignoring files 
should be made explicit. As far as I know, darcs [2] for example only 
adds explicitly, and ignores the rest. So .pyc files would be 
automatically ignored. This is not very ideal if you just added a new 
source file though. Although you probably *know* this file belongs in 
the repository, so you won't likely forget to explicitly add it.

I'm not sure what the best solution is, but it seems implicit ignoring 
could save the user some time.

[1] http://www.bazaar-ng.org/doc/use-cases.html#ignore-some-files
[2] http://abridgegame.org/darcs/

Cheers,

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Jo Vermeulen <jo at lumumba.luc.ac.be>
http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jo/