Re: .cvsignore file being ignored

[Frederic Brehm]

At 10:08 AM 6/5/2003, Larry Jones wrote:
> There's nothing I hate more than software that thinks it
> knows more than I do and refuses to let me do what I want to do.

The principal of least surprises should be Commandment #1 of the Software 
Engineers Ten Commandments (requirements for the other nine are still being 
collected :-)


I agree that "cvs add" does just what it should do, but I can understand 
the desire for a "cvs add-with-ignore" command.

It wouldn't be too hard to write a shell script "cvs-my-add" that trimmed 
the list of files on the command line based on the contents of ./.cvsignore 
and called "cvs add".

In order to get the build-in list and the $(CVSROOT)/CVSROOT/cvsignore 
list, you would have to do ugly things in a shell script, or build a new 
command into cvs. The current list of CVS maintainers does not seem to have 
the inclination to do this.

Hey, it's Open Source. If you want it bad enough, you can add it. If you 
make it a separate command (or possibly enabled with a special option to 
add), then there's a chance it might be accepted by the current maintainers 
for the next release. I think that there's some file named "Hacking" or 
something like that which has requirements for getting something into cvs.

Fred


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Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, http://www.sarnoff.com/