Windows version Auto-Ignores exe files. Why?

[John Arbash Meinel]

Mark wrote:
> On 5/12/06, *Wouter van Heyst* <larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
> <mailto: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

Well, for your copy of bzr you could just edit bzrlib/__init__.py and
remove line 29:
'*.exe'.

I realize you are probably on windows, and thus might be using the
'compiled' bzr.exe, so you would have to ask Alexander to re-create one
for you with the change.

John
=:->


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