skipping dot files and "-f" option

[Rolf Schreiber]

Hi,

GLOBAL/gtags automatically skips all dotfiles and dotdirectories, which
is probably a good idea (see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-global/2008-06/msg00000.html).

But there should be a way to include files in a dotdirectory. I'm
trying to use GLOBAL for a big project where some source code is in
dotdirectories, and I can't change that project to fit GLOBAL.

The "-f" option of gtags, where you tell exactly, which files to
include should do exactly that IMHO, and not skip dotfiles/dotdirs even
when given by the "-f" option, which is the current behaviour.

I consider this a bug, that
 - files explicitly submitted by the user are not treated
 - there is not even a workaround to treat those files

I see two solutions:
A) take every file from the "-f" option. 
B) create another command line option whether to skip dotfiles/dotdirs.

I prefer solution A), what do you think?

Kind regards,

Rolf Schreiber