On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 08:58, Thomas Spura <thomas.sp...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou, 02.04.2012 13:50: > >> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:44:00 -0500 > >> Brian Curtin wrote: > >>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 17:31, Matěj Cepl wrote: > >>>> On 1.4.2012 23:46, Brian Curtin wrote: > >>>>> For what reason? Are the git or bzr files causing issues on HG? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> No, but wrong .gitignore causes issues with git repo obtained via > >>>> hg-fast-import. If it is meant as an intentional sabotage of using > git (and > >>>> bzr) for cpython, then that's the only explanation I can understand, > >>>> otherwise it doesn't make sense to me why these files are in HG > repository > >>>> at all. > >>> > >>> Then you won't understand. Sometimes things get out of date when they > >>> aren't used or maintained. > >>> > >>> You're welcome to fix the problem if you're a Git user, as suggested > earlier. > >> > >> That said, these files will always be outdated, so we might as well > >> remove them so that at least git / bzr users don't get confused. > > > > How often is anything added to the .hgignore file? I doubt that these > files > > will "sufficiently always" be outdated to be unhelpful. > > How about using symlinks and only using a common syntax in .hgignore > that git also understands? > Because .hgignore has a more expressive syntax. We shouldn't hobble or make messy our hg repo just for the sake of git.
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