FEATURE REQ: make bzr ignore accept multiple arguments

[Rob Browning]

Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> writes:

> The reason for that was the way glob expansion works in most shells.
> If you had, say foo.tmp and bar.tmp in your directory, then your shell
> would expand *.tmp to foo.tmp bar.tmp, and ignore only those two files.
>  So one easy way of detecting an accidental expansion is to refuse more
> than one argument.
>
> Yes, we realize that you can quote '*.tmp'-- what we were trying to
> avoid was silently doing the wrong thing.
>
> BTW, *.tmp, *.bak and *.orig are already in the default ignore list.

Another option might be to just provide some feedback by default:

  $ bzr ignore *.tmp
  Ignore pattern added: a.tmp
  Ignore pattern added: b.tmp

and also provide a --quiet argument.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592  F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4