Re: Re: [darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Hoan Ton-That
Hey, Also, another patch which I would be interested in is one that adds tests for the mechanism. What tests exactly, I'm not entirely sure. Some examples might be making sure that ignored files really are ignored, that there aren't any weird interactions between boring and ignored, that comman

[darcs-devel] Re: New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> FWIW, I 100% support this position. There should be some support for a > "local changes" repository that always gets merged with the default > repository. I think that feature is very useful and will take care of most > practical cases where the proposed feature is helpful. Agreed. What you wan

Re: [darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Brian Smith
On 9/13/06, Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:24:04PM +1000, Hoan Ton-That wrote:What I'm a bit worried about with your new proposed ignore command is that it (to me) doesn't look like much value for the money (or rather, feature for the extra complexity). And i

Re: [darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Tommy Pettersson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:24:04PM +1000, Hoan Ton-That wrote: > I wrote this feature because I was working on a repository > with configuration files in it. I was always being pestered > about the changes I made to them, but I never wanted to > record them, because they were local changes (like a

Re: [darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Jason Dagit
On 9/13/06, Eric Y. Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, another patch which I would be interested in is one that adds tests for the mechanism. What tests exactly, I'm not entirely sure. Some examples might be making sure that ignored files really are ignored, that there aren't any weird intera

Re: [darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi, Thanks for the patch! You might have noticed my attempt to start a discussion on this on darcs-users. I haven't had a chance to look at this yet, but I do already have a request. Could you please split this patch up into one for the core mechanism (ignore file, slurpy stuff, etc), and one t

[darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

2006-09-13 Thread Hoan Ton-That
Hey everyone, I wrote this feature because I was working on a repository with configuration files in it. I was always being pestered about the changes I made to them, but I never wanted to record them, because they were local changes (like a STMP server address). Boring files didn't do the job,