On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Aaron Bentley <aa...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12-06-25 03:43 PM, Benji York wrote: >> Ah! I didn't know that once added changes to the README wouldn't >> be ignored, so I thought the negative ignore was important. Good >> to know. > > Yes. In fact, ignoring only affects UI, and only affects > unversioned[1] files. So essentially it controls the behaviour of > "add" and "commit --strict" and the output of "status" and "ignored". > > [1] An "unversioned" file is one whose changes are not tracked by > Bazaar. "ignored" and "unknown" are sub-categories of "unversioned".
Thanks for the info. So, negative ignores are useful when you want to be sure you see a file listed as unknown when that file normally does not exist and who's existence would otherwise be masked by the active .bzrignore. Right? If so, that seems like a narrow use case. But good bzr trivia. Is there a geek pub game company we can submit this to? ;) -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
