Re: [Monotone-devel] .mtn-ignore ignored?

[Timothy Brownawell]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems my regexps in .mtn-ignore no longer works.  When I call "mtn ls
> ignored", the resulting list is always empty.  When I do "mtn add -R .",
> it add all files including the ones I want to ignore, and that match the
> regexps.
> 
> I think this is a regression since 0.36 or so; I know for a fact that
> these same regexps used to work.
> 
> Do recent versions of monotone still support .mtn-ignore, as the
> documentation says?

Yes, for example the .mtn-ignore in net.venge.monotone seems to work
fine. 0.37 did switch from Boost::regex to PCRE, but NEWS says this
shouldn't have broken anything. Do you have examples of the patterns and
the files they're failing to match?