On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> ...
>
> 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?


src/auto/config.mk and runtime/doc/tags are under mercurial control,
they sould not be added to .hgignore (or they should be removed from
mercurial control):

$ hg locate | grep "config.mk$"
src/auto/config.mk
$ hg locate | grep "runtime.*tags$"
runtime/doc/tags


> 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).


I suggest to add also src/tags.


> What have we forgotten? Ah yes, src/auto/if_perl.c (on Linux) and
> src/if_perl.c (on Windows). Is that all now?


Xavier

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