Re: [Monotone-devel] Changes in nvm.basic_io.inventory

[hendrik]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:59:21AM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote:
> Stephen Leake schrieb:
> > And I've finished that; all tests in tests/automate_inventory and
> > tests/automate_inventory_path now pass.
> > 
> > There are a couple FIXMEs about adding more tests; I guess I should
> > work on those while I'm on a roll :).
> 
> I'm currently skimming over the bug reports wrt automate inventory of
> the last months (this [0] is a good starting point) and stumbled across
> another:
> 
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?17361
> 
> Since monotone will never - and any other cross-platform software
> neither - get proper support for any special file type

special file *type*?  This bug refers to files with weird characters in 
the names.  I was worried for a moment.  I thought you meant that 
monotone would, for example, never acquire proper merge semantics for 
XML files (whatever that might be!)

> (and I'm not
> convinced anyways that looking at these kind of files is worth in
> general, maybe mtn should just deny them _altogether_ without even
> listing them explicitely as ignored files...?), I think a good solution
> for the above bug would be the your idea of having a "--hide-ignored"
> and/or "--hide-unknown-and-ignored" flag - whats the status of this anyways?