[libvirt] [PATCH] Add a rule for generating .hgignore
Jim Meyering
jim at meyering.net
Thu Jan 22 07:31:46 UTC 2009
john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> Add a rule for generating .hgignore
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
> --- a/Makefile.maint
> +++ b/Makefile.maint
> @@ -717,3 +717,5 @@ sync-vcs-ignore-files:
> mv $(c2g)-t $(c2g)
> perl $(c2g)
> rm -f $(c2g)
> + find $(srcdir) -name .gitignore | xargs cat \
> + | sort -u | sed 's+\*+.*+' >.hgignore
There are a couple of problems when doing it that way:
.gitignore uses glob syntax, while .hgignore uses regexps by default.
You can use the "syntax: glob" directive to tell hg what to do.
hoisting subdir-specific ignore directives all into a top-level
.hgignore file is risky. What if a generated (hence ignored) file
in a subdirectory is also the name of something that must not be
ignored at some other point in the tree?
The latter risk is why I made that rule generate one .gitignore
file alongside each .cvsignore file.
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