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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:36:38AM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:47:09AM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> >> Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > How could "list unknown" behave that would be useful in this
> >> > situation?
> >> 
> >> If it was possbile to constrain it to a specific directory, it could
> >> very well make sense. For example together with an analogue of Emacs
> >> PCL-CVS mode for monotone.
> >
> > Hmm:
> >
> > ~/src/monotone/src$ monotone ls unknown | wc -l
> > 101
> > ~/src/monotone/src$ monotone ls unknown tests | wc -l
> > 4
> >
> > :-)
> 
> Ah. I tried
> 
>   monotone ls unknown tests .
> 
> in the working copy root dir and it still walked the entire tree.
> 18.1  speaking.

Hmm, what did you expect that to do?

(It was interpreted as; list everything that's in 'tests', or in '.'.
Since everything is in '.', this is the same as specifying nothing...)

-- Nathaniel

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