-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12-06-25 04:26 PM, Benji York wrote: > 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?
Right. > If so, that seems like a narrow use case. I tend to agree, but the rationale was given in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/428031 and a discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/61638 > But good bzr trivia. Is there a geek pub game company we can > submit this to? ;) :-) Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/oztEACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI36jwCeLrA67/zBybaz7AaHY8cHsbIg ADwAn35GudkO6c9fzN3EqYQ8/c3eGIvG =OpfA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
