Yes, definitely a good idea. Rake already does this in some places (e.g., FileList will automatically ignore .cvs directories, .bak files, etc).
It would be nice to have a global setting where ignored files/directories are defined, with a decent set of default values. alex On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Peter Schröder <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > i am doing a simple task like > > package(:zip, :file=>_(:target, "#{PROJECT_NAME}.zip")).include(_(:context, > '*')) > > and get a zip containing ALL the stuff from that directory. > > i think it would be wise to provide some default filters that ignore files > like '.gitignore' etc. > > what do you think? > > kind regards, > peter
