From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: [EGit PATCH] IgnoreAction to add to .gitignore files Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:27 +0200 Message-ID: <200904240108.27610.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> References: <20090423115042.743E6D9CDC@apple.int.bandlem.com> <200904232309.28680.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" , Francis Galiegue , git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org To: Alex Blewitt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 24 01:10:29 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 1Lx83l-0005cO-Qw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:10:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760721AbZDWXIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759783AbZDWXId (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:33 -0400 Received: from mail.dewire.com ([83.140.172.130]:24479 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758389AbZDWXIc (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:32 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B438914927D1; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:30 +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 Wc6pDEdPkL57; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleipner.localnet (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F36814927C8; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:08:30 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.27-14-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: 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 23:12:40 skrev Alex Blewitt : > > On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:09, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > > torsdag 23 april 2009 22:36:49 skrev Alex Blewitt : > >> I don't know of any other SCM that allows you to un-ignore files in > >> the way that Git does; my guess is that most people wouldn't miss it > >> if it weren't there. A .gitignore customised editor is probably > >> overkill too - after all, you can just open it up in a text editor > >> and > >> make changes yourself. I've amended a few .cvsignore files in my time > >> manually, but I wouldn't want to overcomplicate the menu for that. > > > > Why do we want a plugin for git? We have the command line. > > I mean, it's trivial to open up the .gitignore file in Eclipse as a > text file. I was doing that to check the implementation worked whilst > adding entries to the .gitignore. > > I've seen all manner of bad UIs in applications created because the > developer wanted 'total flexibility' and exposed everything via the > UI. For something as simple as ignoring a file, which is already a > pretty standardised operation across SCMs, I don't see any benefit in > making it more complicated than it needs to be. A bad GUI is worse than no GUI, so we don't want that. We're not that desperate. -- robin