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Re: .cvsignore file being ignored
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: .cvsignore file being ignored |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:53:34 -0400 (EDT) |
Peschko, Edward writes:
>
> Why the resistance to what would be a trivial feature?
Because even trivial features are expensive. They clutter up the code,
the test suite, the documentation, and the users' minds. In this case,
it encourages a bad, some would even say dangerous, habbit (expecting
software to second guess you and do what you want instead of what you
told it to do).
-Larry Jones
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -- Calvin
- RE: .cvsignore file being ignored, Alexandre Augusto Drummond Barroso, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Peschko, Edward, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored,
Larry Jones <=
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Greg A. Woods, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Kaz Kylheku, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Greg A. Woods, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Paul Sander, 2003/06/05
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Greg A. Woods, 2003/06/05
- A series of CVS questions., Sam Talebbeik, 2003/06/06
- Re: A series of CVS questions., Mark D. Baushke, 2003/06/06
- Re: A series of CVS questions., Larry Jones, 2003/06/06
- Re: A series of CVS questions., Kaz Kylheku, 2003/06/07
- Re: .cvsignore file being ignored, Fabian Cenedese, 2003/06/10