[MERGE] default user ignores in ~/.bazaar/ignore

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Jul 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Why isn't it being added to .bzrignore then? It would seem to be a
> project specific ignore. Though I guess it shouldn't be present in
> converted versions ....

Perhaps they don't want a lasting record of it after the conversion?
But putting the conversion program's log inside the converted directory
does seem a bit unhygenic.

> I'm okay with something like DEFAULT_IGNORE. Probably better to migrate
> to something else, since the name is poor for what it is now being used
> as. And also it doesn't seem worthy of being directly on bzrlib.
> Something like:
> 
> bzrlib.ignores.add_runtime_ignores(['foo'])
> 
> I'd like to hear what other people think, though.

I think that would be reasonable.  It might be OK to just have a mutable
sequence but given what we've just been through perhaps hiding it behind
a function or two is better.

-- 
Martin