On 4/14/2017 9:15 PM, Warren Young wrote:
27. Add a section or new document on transitioning from .fooignore files.
Started drafting this as a new section called Converting .gitignore to
ignore-glob. Reading https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore among other
sources since my only contact with Git has been reluctant.
Some features in of gitignore that seem useful and likely not impossible
to add:
* Comments. Lines beginning with # are comments. Git uses \# for an
entry that actually begins with a hash. Personally I want comments, and
plan to add them to fossil's glob lists, probably using "#file" or
'#file' to quote rather than adding a new quote character to fossil.
* Negation. A pattern can begin with ! to negate the pattern. Again,
\! for a pattern that begins with a bang. This seems amusing, but I'm
not really sure of the use case that makes it compelling. It would be
easy enough to add, though.
Features that I'm not excited by but which could likely be handled:
* Accumulating patterns from lots of ignore files: current dir,
parents up tree, user's home directory places, etc. Too many places are
used.
* Scattering .gitignore hither and yon through the file tree. Fossil
only has a couple of magic filenames it worries about in the tree, and
those are all at the root.
Features that seem like a real problem and which might make a real
compatibility goal impractical without breakage:
* Using fnmatch(3) instead of SQLite's GLOB operator
* Git wildcards do not match path separators
* The whole ** thing to compensate for not matching path separators
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