Re: [EGIT PATCH] Add support for writing/appending .gitignore file

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
>
> First, Ferry Huberts is also working on a solution for ignore See
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/114825 though you
> focus on different aspects.

Yup, saw the issue 32. I'll keep an eye on that and hopefully I can
leverage what that does when it's ready.

> This patch is whitespace damaged.  Pasting into gmail won't work. Gmail
> has authenticated SMTP on port 25 and 465 (SSL) so git-send-email should work that way.

One advantage of attaching issues is you don't have MUA problems :-)
I'll try and get a patch to work via git-send-email later.

>> +     private static final String GITIGNORE_ENCODING = "UTF-8";
>
> For the time being we use Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING

Great, thought there'd be something already. Will use that.

>> +             NullProgressMonitor m = new NullProgressMonitor();
> I guess this method should execute fairly fast, but in general we should run
> with a real progress monitor. See an action, like Track (maybe we should
> rename to TrackAction...).

OK, will put in a real one.

> I think this series should be one patch only.

I've been incrementally committing to my local git copy. Whenever I do
git format-patch <since> it spews out individual patchettes. How can I
use git to generate one patch? I could git diff <since>, but that's
not following the SUBMITTING_PATCHES, is it?

> Some actual error logging would be nice. Activator.logError for just logging and MessageDialog.openError
> for posting an error message to the user.

Righto, next on the list.

Alex