Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-ignore and .cvsignore files

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:28:37AM +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> Apropos a recent discussion, would this patch prevent monotone from
> scanning a whole directory tree if the top level dir itself matches an
> ignore pattern?

It's orthogonal.

On that point, though -- would it make sense to people that, if
ignore_file returned 'true' when given a directory, that everything
inside that directory should therefore be ignored?  I.e., a file would
be ignored iff it itself was not ignored, and furthermore none of the
directories containing it were ignored?  This should be possible to
do, and would presumably help in this case...

-- Nathaniel

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