On 28/05/10 01:54, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
Bram Moolenaar, 2010-05-26 22:59:
Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 25/05/10 22:37, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
[...]
The undo files are hidden, all version control systems I know will
ignore them. E.g. swap files are normally not a problem.
[...]
For a counterexample, Mercurial tracks files regardless of an initial
dot: .hgignore is specifically mentioned as tracked, and I've also seen
it mentioning src/.version.c.swp when I did hg status with a file open
in Vim.
Yeah, Mercurial is a bit annoying, it does ignore it's own files (.hg,
.hgtags) but not others.
And that's the right thing to do. A VCS shouldn't add this kind of
policy. If dot files were ignored by default, they would be hidden in
"hg status" and you would forget to add them for tracking (.hgignore for
example).
You can still add something like .*.swp to .hgignore for the swap files.
Markus
I would add not only .*.swp but even .*.sw? (to ignore .swo .swn etc.),
src/auto/config.mk (which is regenerated by configure from the
config.mk.dist and a couple of others) and runtime/doc/tags (which is
regenerated by make install). However, maybe I'm talking from a
"provincial" Linux standpoint: I'm fairly certain that users of
makefiles other than Makefile don't need src/auto/config.mk but what
about the help tags? I guess all makefiles "ought" to rebuild them at
some point but do they?
Ah, and shadow directories. In theory they can be named anything (below
src/ ) but the default is src/shadow and I propose to also "ignore"
src/shadow-* in case someone had several shadow directories -- with a
notice somewhere (maybe as a comment in either or both of the
src/Makefile and .hgignore) that shadow-<something> is the preferred
name. Then src/runtime and src/pixmaps (softlinks created by make
shadow) and src/cscope.out (just to be on the safe side in case someone
built a cscope database for the Vim source).
What have we forgotten? Ah yes, src/auto/if_perl.c (on Linux) and
src/if_perl.c (on Windows). Is that all now?
Best regards,
Tony.
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