Re: enhancement request to cvsignore file operation

[Spiro Trikaliotis <list-bug-cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Warren,

* On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:57:00PM -0700 Warren L Dodge wrote:
 
> >Description:
>         The various cvsignore processing is used to ignore generated
>         files when doing "cvs -nq". This is needed to keep a clean cvs
>         -nq output. A second part of the process is getting the "make
>         clean" to get rid of all generated files. With the cvsignore
>         files being used it is hard to tell if the clean did everything
>         or not. 
> 
>         What would be handy is if you could disable the cvsignore
>         processing on a "cvs -nq" command.

You are right, it would be handy. I thought -I! would do the trick, but
it does not.

I would vote for such a change. ;)

In the meantime, there is a work-around for this problem without a need
to manually move or delete files: Use cvsu --ignore (cf.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/cvspurge) from the cvsutils
(http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/). This command with this option does
exactly what you want to achieve.

HTH,
Spiro.

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