Hello, It is not too late to change the name of the directive, but I would like to see some discussion/input on this. Although I don't have any strong attachment to "Ignore Dir", I think I personally prefer it to "Exclude Flag File", which will be harder for me to remember.
Comments? Best regards, Kern On Friday 03 October 2008 19:19:07 Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Dan Langille schrieb am 02.10.08 um 23:02 Uhr: > > Hi Dan, > > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > >Ignore Dir > > > > > >A note on whether this directive works recursive or not > > >would be fine. > > > > Recursive? > > > > As in 'ignore this directory' but take all its children? > > > > Sorry, that's not an ignore. ;) > > Full ack, but just to be 100% sure ;) > > > Point taken though. It reduces the number of questions. > > yes, thanks. > > > But regardless, if people are so inclined, hunting down the text > > and supplying a patch helps a great deal. > > Yes, I used to do that. Sorry that I did not this time. > > > >(And I personally would find "Exclude Flag File" more intuitive as > > >"Exclude" is the bacula terminology to to ignore files or > > >directories...) > > > > FWIW, you can name the file anything you want. > > I did not mean the value of the directive but the name of the > directive itself. > > Everywhere in the FileSet in Bacula you use the word "Exclude" when > dealing with files that will not be backed up. So I suggest to > follow this terminology instead of introducing a synonym. > I think this will increase usability. > > So I think > > Exclude Flag File = .no_backup > > would be more intuitive about what it does than > > Ignore Dir = .no_backup > > > Also I think because of using the word 'Dir' many people would expect > this to be a directory which will be ignored and will try something > like this: > > Ignore Dir = /tmp > > will will be nonsense of course ;) > > -Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
