[Python-Dev] .{git,bzr}ignore in cpython HG repo (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Apr 2 00:52:03 CEST 2012

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:

Why does HG cpython repo contains .{bzr,git}ignore at all?

So that when people switch between repo software the set of ignored files remains constant. While the "official" repo isn't going to switch any time soon, various developers for various reasons prefer different repo software and the tools for copying repos work well enough that people actually do this, for various workflow purposes. As long as patches eventually find their way back into the central Hg repo I have no problem in it.

IMHO, all .*ignore files should be strictly repository dependent and they should not be mixed together.

No, because then everybody who copies a repo to a different tool would have to start over from scratch.

It is even worse, that (understandingly) .{bzr,git}ignore are apparently poorly maintained, so in order to get an equivalent of .hgignore in .gitignore, one has to apply the attached patch.

Please file a bug to get this reviewed and checked in.

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