[MERGE] do not export .bzrrules

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:32 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> > Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> > | Currently, the export command skips over .bzrignore. This
> > | simple patch extends that logic so that other "magic"
> > | files in the .bzr* namespace - like .bzrrules - are
> > | skipped over during export as well.
> > |
> > | Ian C.
> > |
> > 
> > The only problem I know is that there are plugins which create
> > ".bzr-FOO" directories. I would imagine they don't really want them
> > exported either. I'm just a bit concerned that they don't have a *say*
> > in the matter.
> 
> They can always use a slightly different namespace like .FOO-bzr I guess.
> Otherwise, there are several ways of solving this and I rather wait until
> we get a concrete case before adopting one. I hope its YAGNI.


I think I'd rather we didn't do 'startswith' but just listed the
explicit things we are filtering. I still think its a conceptual bug
that we need to do this sort of filtering at all: it rather clearly
shows that users don't consider these files *part of their tree*.

-Rob


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