Okay. I always put these in the boring file. Matter of taste I guess. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Ketil Malde <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Verswyvelen <[email protected]> writes: > > > Regarding these files that people forget to checkin. > > Doesn't every project have a well define directory structure? Shouldn't > the > > "prefs/boring" file use this fact to encapsulate the rules of file > inclusion > > and exclusion? Isn't it safer to checkin too many files (by accident) > than > > forgetting one? Shouldn't this behavior be the default? > > IMO: No. My development directories tend to litter up with files > containing test input data, output data, profiling data, and all kinds > of junk. Better to occasionally forget a file and get an error > message in the mail when somebody else tries to use it > (i.e. non-strictly) than have my darcs repository and Hackage sdists > working but littered with junk. (My current testing involves 118GB of > input data, you sure you want to see that on Hackage? :-) > > -k > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants >
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