[merge] global (per user) ignores and other cleanups

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On  7 Jul 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> Attached is a bundle which implements a global ignore file in
>> ~/.bazaar/ignore
> 
> Just two thing: please add a NEWS entry so people can see
> what changed, and please add at least a stub to the documentation
> describing that the file exists.

I had actually already added a NEWS entry, but it was posted in a later
patch. Can you comment on 'bzr setup-default-ignores'?

It is slightly redundant with:
bzr ignore --old-default-rules > ~/.bazaar/ignore

But it is much easier to use on win32, where ~/.bazaar is a really ugly
path.


>> The other possibility would be that if ~/.bazaar/ignore *doesn't* exist,
>> it uses the builtin list of default ignores. Which is more of a
>> compatible upgrade path than our current system.
> 
> Well, I think we would want that list to be more conservative than what
> we have at the moment, both to avoid surprising people and to help with
> performance.
> 
> So I'll give a +1, the patch looks good as written.  If other people
> have concerns about adding the feature we can talk about it some more
> but I think it's basically reasonable.

Attached is the update to tutorial.txt.

I also have this NEWS entry if we don't want setup-default-ignores:
* Per-user global ignores can now be set in ~/.bazaar/ignore. This list
  of ignores will be applied to every tree.
  (John Arbash Meinel)

Or this one if we *do* want it:
* Per-user global ignores can now be set in ~/.bazaar/ignore. This list
  of ignores will be applied to every tree. To restore bzr 0.8 behavior
  run 'bzr setup-default-ignores' to populate ~/.bazaar/ignore with the
  0.8 ignore rules.  (John Arbash Meinel)

John
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