Re: default value of grep-find-ignored-directories should include .svn

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kim F. Storm wrote:
> David Glasser <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The new grep-find-ignored-directories variable is a good idea.  I
> > think its default value should include ".svn" and probably "_darcs"
> > too, as these are commonly used version control systems (Subversion at
> > least is arguably much more popular than Mercurial and Arch, whose
> > directories are currently in the default value).
>
> Ok, I have added them.
>
> However, there is generally no need to exclude directories from the
> find, unless the version control systems actually store copies/backups
> of source files in there, or otherwise use file names which resembles
> source file names that may confuse the search and give false matches.
>
> For CVS, in some cases, the CVS/Base subdir contains copies of modified
> files.  So CVS must be excluded from the search.
>
> Does the other VC's do this too in some cases?
>
> Or are there other reasons to exclude them from the search?

Because your find command may not even have a -name clause, or (as
you say above) the -name pattern may match files in the VC directory.
I think that's a good enough reason.

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Kevin