Problem
I forget to add in new files that I create. This leads to me creating
one or more check-ins that aren't a complete representation of the
working set of files. Worse, the new files are often the ones that I'm
working on most actively because they're new.
Suggestion
Could fossil flag these untracked files to me, and in fact, not allow
me to check-in until I've either added the files to the project, or
told fossil that I don't want them added?
Discussion
1) Yes – I realise this is just me being stupid :-) But I'm a human,
and I'm fallible, and I like tools to help me improve on that.
2) Maybe fossil already does this and I just don't know about that
setting.
3) I'm not necessarily asking for fossil features here – I'd be happy
with another approach. However, I like the fossil philosophy of doing
all the stuff it should do with minimum fuss or configuration, and
without external tool requirements.
4) In my working set, I have a small number of files that I do not
want to place under revision control. They're essentially settings
files in use by my IDE. I've made some effort to keep this set of
files small (I have two, in fact), keeping build artefacts in another
location. I think it is a normal situation for the working set to be
polluted by such files (it's been the case with all IDE and build
environments I've used). I'm assuming that it is reasonable for these
to be there. This means (I think) that I require a way of marking
files (and perhaps patterns of files, although in my personal current
case I don't need patterns) as explicitly not being under revision
control.
5) Some or many people might not want this feature in some or many
situations, so it should probably be possible to disable it with a
setting and on an ad-hoc basis with a force.
6) When I perform "fossil extra", I'd want it to only list the files
that are not tracked and not to be ignored, although it would be
useful to be able to list all extra files too.
Thanks,
Benjohn
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