[MERGE] Add ignore patterns into bzr.dev

[Martin Pool]

On  3 Jul 2006, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:27:29AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > +.*.sw[nop]
> > +.sw[nop]
> 
> Nothing in the building of bzr creates files such as these, so these
> rules have no business being inside the project's .bzrignore file, IMHO.
> Rules such as these should only appear in a per-user ignore file (which
> should probably be initialized to some default set of rules when it
> doesn't yet exist).

I think per-user ignores would be useful, but putting these here may be
pragmatic until we have them.

> So, a better patch than this would be to add code to implement per-user
> ignore rules and then add these rules to the initializing code for when
> the rules don't yet exist.  (I'm still using my old patch that reads in
> the ~/.bazaar/ignore file, but that patch didn't attempt to create the
> file if it was missing.)

Could you repost that please?  It can be useful even if it's not
automatically initialized, and whether automatic initialization is
justified is a separate matter.

-- 
Martin