On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> > wrote: >> Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> >>> Julian Foad wrote: >>>> Daniel Shahaf wrote: >>>> > Perfect, thanks. I think not-overriding for add/import is fine: for >>>> > 'import' only the repository files are affected, and for 'add' files >>>> > matching the pattern can be specified explicitly in the argv targets >>>> > (and auto-props added can be modified or stripped after 'add' and >>>> > before 'commit'). >>>> >>>> Am I the only one going "Eww!" on reading this? >>>> >>>> We have three ways of specifying ignores, and we have an option that >>>> disregards them, only in one cammand it disregards all of the ways and >>>> in two other commands the option only disregards two of the ways. And >>>> we say "sure, that sounds perfect". It doesn't sound fine to me, it >>>> sounds horrible. >>>> >>>> What am I missing? >>> >>> Do 'add' and 'import' already take the '--no-ignore' flag? My answer >>> was assuming they didn't. >> >> They do. >> >>> Also Julian you might want to review the semantics of svn:auto-props? >>> According to the wiki page there is no way to override or ignore those >>> upon add/import, either - I'm not completely happy with that. >> >> Thanks, I'll try to review that too. > > If we ultimately decide[1] to allow svn:global-ignores to be > disregarded with the --no-ignore option, then I suggest it makes sense > for 'svn add' and 'svn import' to disregard the svn:auto-props > property when the --no-auto-props option is used. Anyone disagree? > > [1] And it certainly looks as if we are going in that direction. I'll > give this thread a day before making any changes, so all interested > parties have a chance to weigh in. > I think that svn:global-ignores should work the same as svn:ignore. So if --no-ignore option disregard svn:ignore then it should disregard svn:global-ignores.
This is also true for svn:auto-props. /bike-shed note: why property named "svn:global-ignores", not "svn:global-ignore"? It will be looking more consistent with "svn:ignore". -- Ivan Zhakov
