Andy Goth wrote: > > My recommendation is to keep the promise made by the current addremove > documentation. That is to say, make extras and adds be equal. This > means changing the extras command to also ignore files matched by > clean-glob: extras = adds = tree - managed - ignore-glob. >
I do not recall the exact rationale behind the existing semantics; however, I'm pretty sure there was a length discussion (or two) on the mailing list at some point. > > The clean command has gotten very complicated, so I further advocate > removing the -emptydirs and -dotfiles options and making them always be > in effect. Empty directories requiring preservation should be listed in > the empty-dirs setting. Likewise, dotfiles should be checked in or put > in ignore-glob. I also advocate removing -keep and keep-glob since I > really don't know what they do that isn't done better by ignore-glob. > Unfortunately, most of the complexity is necessary and removing or changing the semantics would risk breaking existing repositories, including some of the ones I use on a daily basis. -- Joe Mistachkin _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
