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

[Robert Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:56, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:39, John Seifarth wrote:
> > I'm using arch to manage the files making up a Web site written in PHP.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> 1) make sure you are running a recent tla (preferrably one built from
> the arch main repository, (or equivalent a daily snapshot from asuffield
> - if people.debian.org is fixed yet)).
> 
> 2) cd to the dir above the one to ignore
> 
> 3) edit a new file .arch-inventory
> in there put
> ===
> precious directoryname
> ===
> 4) issue 'tla add .arch-inventory'
> 
> There you go.

Or just add the directory to the precious pattern in any version of tla.

Bob