Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Excluded files should actually be excluded

[Jan Hudec]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 14:31:04 -0800, Nathan Howell wrote:
> I've been working on getting my home dir into arch recently, and have
> run into a couple of snags. Here's the setup. I've tried doing this
> before, using configs and several separate projects for different sets
> of config files. I found it too cumbersome to maintain, so I'm now using
> one big project in ~, with certain directories (mostly large ones)
> excluded either because I never want them in an archive or because they
> will be their own projects. 
> 
> The main project is set to tagline, with untagged-source source set.
> This is basically to keep my options open, and to make it easy to
> maintain. I don't want to spend a ton of time dealing with adding and
> removing files, so I'm essentially using names, but I want the option of
> using taglines and explicit ids when I wish to (since I already have
> taglines in most of the config files that I care about). 
> 
> Here are the problems/questions:
> 
> 1. When I specify files to exclude (in .arch-inventory), they aren't
> actually ignored by arch at all times. They are still considered (all
> the excluded dirs are still traversed), and this slows everything down.
> At this point, it is also preventing me from committing my files. A
> couple of excluded directories have files with unicode chars in them,
> things like accented e's and such, which apparently violate naming
> conventions. Since I don't even want these files in the archive in the
> first place, having them stop my commit completely is quite frustrating.
> I need to make arch completely ignore these files. Possible?

The "excluded" files mean they are excluded from listing, NOT revision
control. Use precious if you don't want them under revision control.

> 2. I can see wanting to commit files with accented unicode chars in the
> names in the future. Is this going to be possible at some point? Some
> point soon?

Until Tom makes his mind about what is the right way to handle unicode,
you are out of luck.

> It seems odd to me that excluded files aren't excluded. Is there a
> reason behind this, or is it a bug? Besides preventing my commit at the
> moment, this currently makes the output of tla useless, since it lists
> every excluded file as "apparent source, but lacks an id". There are
> many thousands of them. I really don't need that list.

It is a misleading name.

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