[MERGE] is_ignored improvements...

[Aaron Bentley]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:57:15 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>>Yep. I would also say that it would be nice if we put commonly hit
>>patterns early, since I also saw a big difference between foo.19 and
>>foo.999 (more of a difference than even the difference between 100, 1k
>>and 2k patterns).
> 
> 
> Yes. But I can't really think of a good way to do this. Given how the
> patterns are given. Also the worst case is not matching, which is
> unfortunately the most common one :-(

Hmm.  When do we get this?  Would it make sense to cache a list of 
ignored files?

Aaron