On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:17:05 +1100 Mark Hammond <mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> wrote: > On 30/03/2011 12:09 PM, R. David Murray wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:11:45 +1100, Mark Hammond<mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> > > wrote: > >> I'm wondering if it is a reasonable idea to have .hgignore exclude all > >> files from 'Lib/site-packages' and 'Scripts'? As I install packages > >> into my source builds, a 'hg status' lists *many* files in both those > >> directories forcing me to scroll up a number of pages to see files which > >> have actually changed. > > > > I hardly ever install things into my source build. The first time I've > > done that, in fact, was to run coverage. > > Windows doesn't really have an install process integrated into the > build, so it is probably fairly common there. > > > The solution is to add such > > directories and/or files to your personal ignore list See the 'ignore' > > entry under 'ui' in the hgrc documentation. > > Yeah - but I was wondering if it could be made more convenient by > default given the downside seems quite small...
I don't see any downside myself. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
