Per branch ignore exclusions

[Krzysztof Nowicki]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Krzysztof Nowicki wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> Currently bazaar has 2 lists of ignored files: global (in user home directory)
>> and per branch (in .bzrignore file). It's easy to add more ignore patterns to
>> either of them. But what if I'd like to *exclude* some of the ignore patterns
>> from the global list?
> 
>> I have a repository which contains a lot of binary libraries and object files,
>> which are deliveries from 3rd parties. By default they all get ignored, because
>> of .a or .o extensions. Unfortunately there are hundreds of such files and
>> adding them one-by-one is not an option.
> 
>> While I understand that ignoring such files by default is a good idea, there are
>> specific cases where it would be a nice idea to allow exclusions from the global
>> ignore list in the local .bzrignore file (or maybe a .bzrunignore file).
> 
>> K.
> 
> 
> Is there difficulty doing:
> 
> bzr add *.a *.o
> 
> You don't have to add them one-by-one you just have to explicitly name
> all of them.
> 
> That said, I think I agree with you, I'm not really sure how to
> implement it, without a fairly large overhaul of the ignore system.
> 
> John
> =:->
> 

There is some difficulty if those files are scattered all over the tree in
various subdirectories ;)

For the time being temporary removing those patterns from the global ignore file
does help.

K.