On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Freddie Chopin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I guess the main reason to ignore hidden (dot) files and directories is to
> ignore .tup folder with the database. But is there a good reason to ignore
> ALL such files/directories? Recently there was a discussion about a simple
> operation of generating repository hash which is not possible with tup
> because this would depend on a file in .git folder...
>
> If the only reason is to ignore .tup then maybe it would be possible to
> change tup to ignore this folder only, not all starting with dot?
>
> On the other hand - is it really necessary to ignore .tup folder (assuming
> that's the reason for this rule)?
>
>
Primarily it was to ignore both .tup and .git - I don't think there's any
reason for a sub-process to be using files in .tup, so there's no we don't
need to scan & track them. In .git, I think (maybe incorrectly?) that
things would be changing as things get put into packs, or stashed, or
whatever, that it would cause a lot of spurious rebuilds if you had
sub-processes depend on those files. Maybe you can try to disable the
ignore-the-dot-folders feature and see if it helps or just makes things
annoying :)

-Mike

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