Windows version Auto-Ignores exe files. Why?

[Mark]

On 5/12/06, Wouter van Heyst <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:40:59AM -0400, Mark wrote:
> > I am looking at bzr on windows and I ran into a bit of a snag.  It would
> > appear that it automaticly ignores files matching the pattern
> *.exe.  Why?
> > In my case I have a number of exe files that I WANT to be under revision
> > control and while I realize that I can go back and add them manually it
> just
> > seems wrong from a user perspective.
> >
> > Are these configurable someplace in a configuration file?  I looked at
> the
> > tutorial and the documentation but I don't see any reference to
> this.  Just
> > to the .bzrignore file, which in my case does NOT have *.exe as an
> ignore
> > pattern.
>
> .exe is in the default ignore list since they are usually generated
> files that only clutter your bzr status output. You can add any file
> that matches an ignore pattern and that will take precedence over the
> ignore. Actually being able to edit the default ignores is something
> that we want, see the recent thread 'discussing ignore rules'.
>
> I'm afraid that is not yet possible, short from hacking up
> bzrlib/__init__.py :/


Yes, thanks for this information, it helps quite a bit.  Unfortunately it
also means that bzr is not usable for me right now, as I need to store quit
a few binaries in revision control and I don't want to take the risk that
one of them might be missed due to an auto-ignore by bazaar.

Thanks for the information though
-mark
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