RE: ignored 'core' directory (was: A newbie question.)

[Frederic Brehm]

At 09:43 AM 5/10/2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> I wonder if this could be solved by modifying the behaviour of .cvsignore -
> if we could tell CVS to ignore *files* named 'core' but not *directories*
> named 'core', then the problem would go away altogether.

We still need a way to ignore directories, though. For example, I don't 
want to save those "Debug" and "Release" directories generated by MS Visual 
Studio.

Perhaps the problem is that there is a built-in "cvsignore" list. Judging 
by messages to this mailing list, people seem to be surprised by cvs 
behavior due to this built-in list more often than behavior due to a 
CVSROOT/cvsignore list that they added themselves.

At 12:23 PM 5/10/2004, Schrum, Allan (Allan) wrote:
> Such as
>
>         core
>
> for files
> and
>
>         core/
>
> for directories?

This is a reasonable approach. It doesn't address the "surprise" issue, but 
it does allow directories to be ignored.

Fred


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