My current work assignment has me massively refactoring code written by a prior employee. For various reasons, the svn repository from which I'm working is peppered with dotfiles various people have checked in over time.
Our svn repository is a dead end in that we're (relatively slowly) migrating everything to git based workflows & tools. I know. I'll gladly accept condolence emails to this address. Regardless, given that this particular project has not yet been migrated to git, I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to pull the trunk into a fossil repo, work on a cleanup branch, regularly merging the current state of the svn trunk into my fossil trunk and then into my cleanup branch. It is working wonderfully so far, except for all these pesky dotfiles. It is annoying to continually remember to specify --dotfiles with every add/addremove/extras/clean command. I started to use batch files to alleviate some of the "pain" (not that it was terribly painful), but I dislike the awkwardness of creating lots of little batch files for a few commands that need a special option. So it occurred to me, add a new dotfiles setting. It is much less ambitious of a change than my windows symbolic link branch, and hopefully someone will find it sufficiently useful to merge it to trunk (or give me clearance to do so). Commit [b088c53fbd] on the dotfiles-setting branch for anyone interested. I welcome feedback... -- Scott Robison
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