> 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?

This seems doable.  A quick hack would be to change ign_name to take a
new parameter:
        int am_server
Change change
        if (!ign_name (arg))
in server.c to be
        if (!ign_name (arg, 1))
and change the other calls to ", 0"

Then change ign_name() to look at the first character of the pattern,
see if it's a "|" ...   The problem is that ign_add splits on spaces. 
So perhaps the |xxx syntax could be used to indicate a named test (like
commitinfo) in a new CVSROOT file?

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