On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:18 PM, keenerd <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems accidentally commiting package binaries is an easy error >> among new TUs. A simple way to keep this from happening: >> svn propset svn:ignore '*.pkg.*' . > > That would not prevent source tarballs (say > foobar-software-1.2.3.tar.gz) from being added to the repo by 'svn add > *'. > > So, let's just be careful when adding files and never use 'svn add *'. :) > >> It does not occur often (only twice in the last year) but why not use >> the tools we have to their fullest. > > If it's only happened twice in the period of one year, I'd say it's a > non-issue. >
I think the better solution is to update the wiki information rather then letting new TUs wander off without someone holding their hand. I think someone needs to step up and update things that a TU should know before doing anything.
