On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Oliver Fischer wrote:
> I tent to ignore them. Since they can produced automatically, I
> regard them as temporary files.
> And this is the crux, that you can produce them automatically.
Alas, this is a bit of a problem. In that there are hundreds of
the @##$! things. And as I have found out, people tend to get a bit lax
about booking files in. (I found out the hard way, by moving from RCS to
CVS and finding nothing worked. People had been too lazy / forgot to book
things in to RCS.)
So what I was hoping to get to was a state where every "?" flagged file
was a direct insult to the eye. A highly visible mark that here was a file
that should have been "cvs add"ed but wasn't. If there are hundreds of
generated files like executables lying around, then one loses the impact.
Is there any mechanism to extend cvsignore to match questionable files and
then use something like the "file" command to peek inside them to decide
whether to ignore them or not?
John Carter
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