Re: Improving hgignore

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/2/23 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On 23-Feb-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | Attached is a proposed patch to improve hgignore. I find it a little
> | awkward that there are all these untracked files that inevitably get
> | added to the source tree during build time and clutter the output of
> | "hg st". I'm not exactly sure about a few of these, like explicitly
> | filtering out Emacs files or ignoring most of m4/ and libgnu/
> | directories except the files that are explicitly in "hg manifest".
> |
> | If there are no complaints within a couple of days, I'll push this patch.
>
> | +# These directories mostly contain cruft during build time, but they
> | +# do contain Octave code. Should they have a more careful filter?
> | +(^|/)libgnu($|/)
> | +(^|/)m4($|/)
>
> All files except Makefile.am in the libgnu directory can be ignored.
> The Makefile.am file is already checked in, and we should not be
> adding any other files there, so I think it is OK to just ignore the
> entire directory.
>
> Maybe we should put the Octave m4 files in a separate directory so we
> can ignore all files in the m4 directory since they would then all be
> automatically generated except module.mk, but again we would not be
> adding any files to the m4 directory, so it should then be safe to
> ignore the entire directory.
>
> Please add a newline to the end of the file before pushing.

Okay, I did more cleaning up and pushed it:

     http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/95b1c64c287f

Hope that's ok...

- Jordi G. H.