Per branch ignore exclusions

Krzysztof Nowicki krissn at op.pl
Thu Sep 10 09:21:40 BST 2009


Hi,

Currently bazaar has 2 lists of ignored files: global (in user home directory)
and per branch (in .bzrignore file). It's easy to add more ignore patterns to
either of them. But what if I'd like to *exclude* some of the ignore patterns
from the global list?

I have a repository which contains a lot of binary libraries and object files,
which are deliveries from 3rd parties. By default they all get ignored, because
of .a or .o extensions. Unfortunately there are hundreds of such files and
adding them one-by-one is not an option.

While I understand that ignoring such files by default is a good idea, there are
specific cases where it would be a nice idea to allow exclusions from the global
ignore list in the local .bzrignore file (or maybe a .bzrunignore file).

K.




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