ANN: clean-ignored plugin

[John Arbash Meinel]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> Vincent LADEUIL wrote:
>>>> I'm not kidding, I will *never* use 'bzr ignored --delete' unless
>>>> I have the possibility  to distinguish between :
>>>> - 'ignored *for now* but preciouuuus'
>>>> -  and 'ignored for ever because I do not care'
> 
>>> I think you have a fairly personal use case. And I wouldn't expect you
>>> to delete your ignored files.
> 
> I don't know if it's all that unusual.  For example, the backups "bzr
> merge" produces are junk.  I hate them, and I wish they were never
> produced in the first place.
> 
> On the other hand, the files produced by the shelf plugin are precious,
> and I never want to delete them.
> 
> The 'bzr clean-tree --detritus' option exists because some ignored files
> are junk and some are precious.
> 
> Aaron

I think to me this is more of a desire for configuring merge behavior.
Something like "merge doesn't produce backups". Which could be a command
line option, but really we want a user setting.

Which pushes for general customization of command line options.

At least in my mind.

But yes, I do agree that some ignores are more/less important than
others. But I think Arch was more confusing than helpful by making this
distinction.

Perhaps the functionality can be added by a plugin, so that only people
who want the functionality have to deal with it.

John
=:->

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