On Sunday 13 July 2008 Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken there are only two types of ignore patterns:
> relative ones (to the repository root) and absolute ones.
>
> My guess is that the relative ones are used more often than the absolute
> ones.
I think so, too.
> I think it would be very useful to be able to use all normal features in
> specifying paths (variables such as ${HOME}, wildcards expanded by the
> shell, the tab-key to complete a partial path, etc).
>
> This can be achieved by just prefixing absolute paths with a special
> character such as : or =, so tab completion and the like will still work.
I'll think about that; maybe I'll have an idea.
> I must admit I have not considered how this would interact with regular
> expressions though.
Well, how about "fsvs rel-ignore" (with an abbreviation "ri") that parses all
paths to be WC-relative?
Completely compatible, and should be easily done.
How about that?
Regards,
Phil
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