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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 4 15:57:55 CEST 2012

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 08:58, Thomas Spura <thomas.spura at googlemail.com>wrote:

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefanml at behnel.de> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou, 02.04.2012 13:50: >> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:44:00 -0500 >> Brian Curtin wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 17:31, Matěj Cepl wrote: >>>> On 1.4.2012 23:46, Brian Curtin wrote: >>>>> For what reason? Are the git or bzr files causing issues on HG? >>>> >>>> >>>> No, but wrong .gitignore causes issues with git repo obtained via >>>> hg-fast-import. If it is meant as an intentional sabotage of using git (and >>>> bzr) for cpython, then that's the only explanation I can understand, >>>> otherwise it doesn't make sense to me why these files are in HG repository >>>> at all. >>> >>> Then you won't understand. Sometimes things get out of date when they >>> aren't used or maintained. >>> >>> You're welcome to fix the problem if you're a Git user, as suggested earlier. >> >> That said, these files will always be outdated, so we might as well >> remove them so that at least git / bzr users don't get confused. > > How often is anything added to the .hgignore file? I doubt that these files > will "sufficiently always" be outdated to be unhelpful.

How about using symlinks and only using a common syntax in .hgignore that git also understands?

Because .hgignore has a more expressive syntax. We shouldn't hobble or make messy our hg repo just for the sake of git. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120404/0b4f713d/attachment.html>

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