[Gnu-arch-users] Re: How to ignore a subdirectory

[Marc Martinez]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:39:59PM +0100, John Seifarth wrote:
> Within the document root, in addition to the files that should be 
> treated as source by arch, are one or more subdirectories whose 
> contents arch shouldn't care about.
> 
> So how do I convince arch to ignore a subdirectory within a source tree?
> 
> If I just try to ignore it, all tla commands like 'tla what-changed' 
> simply result in tla complaining that I'm 'missing explicit id for 
> file  (try tree-lint)'.
> 
> I don't want to add the directory, because then I'd have to add each 
> file under that subbranch, and these files are not source files, 
> they're dynamically generated by the application.

the approach I use (that doesn't require a bleeding edge tla build) is
to add the directory itself (so the full tree structure is represented),
cd into the directory, and then use:

    tla explicit-default --dont-care set

this way, Arch knows about the directory itself and the proper tree
structure is represented, but any "scratch files" or other dynamic
content will be ignored.

Marc