What support exists in bzr for .bzrmeta?

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Fri Mar 5 05:48:10 GMT 2010


Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> I'm trying to use this meta directory in my plugin. Does bzr provides
>> some support to work with this object? At least its file name? Other?
> 
> Currently, it's just a convention. In the future, content filtering will
> be disabled for it at least.
> 
> We could certainly add an API to fetch data from a file there say, but
> I'm not sure that adds much value beyond abstraction. More interesting
> in my mind would be registering per-file merge helpers I imagine.
> 
> What do you need and why?


I'm asking because in bzrlib/__init__.py there is such constant:

IGNORE_FILENAME = ".bzrignore"

Also will be nice to filter out .bzrmeta in export operation, as it done now for .bzrignore.
I'm not sure I need anything specific, but if there is something I'm curious to know.

Thanks for answer.




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