[Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-ignore and .cvsignore files

[Bruno Hertz]

Martin Dvorak <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've just made a patch to support the '.mt-ignore' file. It's a simple
> file which contains one regular expression per line. Do you have any
> objections against making it a standard way to describe ignored files?
>
> I also attached Lua code to support '.cvsignore' files. It's handy when
> someone is tracking project which has upstream stored in CVS. I think it
> could be put in the contrib dir.
>

Apropos a recent discussion, would this patch prevent monotone from
scanning a whole directory tree if the top level dir itself matches an
ignore pattern?

Bruno