On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:20:28PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Ben Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > # ??? > > (^|/)\\.tmp_versions($|/) > > (^|/),","\\.prof$","(^|/)\\.DS_Store$ > > Regarding the strange "starts with a comma" entry, it seems that only > David has changed that entry: > > Sun Nov 14 00:49:20 EST 2004 David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * add single comma files to default boring. > hunk ./RepoPrefs.lhs 116 > - "(^|/),,","\\.class$","\\.prof$", > + "(^|/),","\\.class$","\\.prof$", > > Sun Dec 7 02:27:19 EST 2003 David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * add more regexps to default boring and binaries. > hunk ./RepoPrefs.lhs 100 > + "(^|/),,", > hunk ./RepoPrefs.lhs 153 > + "zip", > > If David can't remember why it was added, I suggest we just remove it.
I think it's some old Unix convention that file names beginning with comma are trash files. I have seen several Makefiles with rm ,* in their clean target. A quick search on google unfortunately didn't find anything substantial. -- Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
