[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla's what-changed (missing explicit tag for file (try tree-lint) error message)

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:04:12PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > Er, well, it ought to be configurable -- I definitely want commit to
> > fail if there's something unrecognized in my tree (because it's almost
> > always that I forgot to add an explicit tag or a tagline).
> 
> Agree. But please consider that's the option for project which builds
> quickly or outside from the source tree. On the other hand, there are
> projects which build directly inside the source tree and also they are
> quite slow to build - for these project, such option is better to switch
> off.

Why not just put the build-generated file types in =tagging-method to be
ignored?  The `backup' category seems right as it means `basically ignore but
don't delete', but the name `backup' is a bit odd.

I think the category name `backup' is just generally wrong, actually; it's
too specific.

-Miles
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