On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:31:46AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> john.levon@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Add a rule for generating .hgignore
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
> > --- a/Makefile.maint
> > +++ b/Makefile.maint
> > @@ -717,3 +717,5 @@ sync-vcs-ignore-files:
> > mv $(c2g)-t $(c2g)
> > perl $(c2g)
> > rm -f $(c2g)
> > + find $(srcdir) -name .gitignore | xargs cat \
> > + | sort -u | sed 's+\*+.*+' >.hgignore
>
> There are a couple of problems when doing it that way:
>
> .gitignore uses glob syntax, while .hgignore uses regexps by default.
> You can use the "syntax: glob" directive to tell hg what to do.
>
> hoisting subdir-specific ignore directives all into a top-level
> .hgignore file is risky. What if a generated (hence ignored) file
> in a subdirectory is also the name of something that must not be
> ignored at some other point in the tree?
I'd expect to just prepend the directory path for the rules from subdirs
Perhaps with
echo "syntax: glob" > .hgignore
for ignore in `find $(srcdir) -name .gitignore
do
dir=`dirname $ignore`
for rule in `cat $ignore`
do
echo "$dir/$rule" >> .hgignore
done
done
Daniel
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