default ignores don't ignore '.swp'

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon Jan 9 21:24:53 GMT 2006


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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
>>John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>>>I'm a little against dumping all ignore patterns into
>>>>.bzrignore, because there are quite a few, and it makes the file a
>>>>little ugly.
>>
>>
>>We're already doing that, though.
> Where? 

My bad.  I tested whether we were doing that, but my test was faulty.

>>I don't at the moment, but there are lots of cases in developing
>>proprietary software where all you have is a .a or .so.  I assume it
>>will happen to Python software, sooner or later.

> Sure, but you can always add them if you need to. I have a project which
> uses Makefile.in. It meant I had to do "find . -name Makefile.in | xargs
> bzr add" at the beginning, since bzr wouldn't grab them automatically.

For me, it comes back to "the defaults should be *default*, not
*mandatory*".  But okay, let's not overreact.  We can pull Makefile.in
from the default ignores, since that's the immediate request.

Does anyone else have ideas about how we should handle this?

Aaron
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