From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: [EGit PATCH] IgnoreAction to add to .gitignore files Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:21 +0200 Message-ID: <200904232226.22240.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <20090423115042.743E6D9CDC@apple.int.bandlem.com> <200904232119.36707.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> <49F0CCF4.20808@pelagic.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alex Blewitt , Francis Galiegue , git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org To: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 23 22:28:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lx5Wr-00089G-En for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:28:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753295AbZDWU0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753225AbZDWU0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:25 -0400 Received: from mail.dewire.com ([83.140.172.130]:22567 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752839AbZDWU0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:26:25 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C0C14A8B21; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tq0c5fKrfAai; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleipner.localnet (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E17B14A8B20; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:23 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.27-14-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <49F0CCF4.20808@pelagic.nl> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: torsdag 23 april 2009 22:17:56 skrev "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" : > while we're on the subject... > how about also adding the reverse: when a file is ignored then add it to > the .gitignore file for 'un-ignoring' (the '!' pattern) I'm not convinced each and everything should have a menu entry. Advanced use of .gitignore should have a .gitignore editor. When we have that the option could perhaps launch the editor automatically if it recognized no-trivial ignore rules. For trivial cases it would just append to the file. -- robin