On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think this would be a useful feature. >> > > To me this all sounds like fossil enforcing project-specific policy, which > is something it most certainly should not be doing. > > Case in point: > > [odroid@host:~/fossil/cwal/s2]$ ls -d * > 1 mod_porex.c s2_protos.o > 1.b mod_porex.o s2sh > 1.csv mod_porex.s2 s2sh.history > 1.e mod_porex.so s2sh.s2 > <huge snip> > mod_popen.o s2_pf.c Z.s2 > mod_popen.s2 s2_pf.o > mod_popen.so s2_protos.c > > [odroid@host:~/fossil/cwal/s2]$ ls -1 | wc -l > 166 > > [odroid@host:~/fossil/cwal/s2]$ ls -1 *.c *.h Makefile *.sh *.?pp | wc -l > 46 > > roughly 1/4th of those files are in source control, and it would > absolutely kill me for fossil to say, "hey, buddy, you've got 120 files I > don't know about! Do something about that before continuing!" To which my > response would most certainly be a chain of expletives. Maintaining an > ever-growing ignore-glob for an arbitrary number of globs, just to enforce > a policy invoked in _someone else's project_ would be a highly unattractive > option. > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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