Re: [Monotone-devel] new include/exclude commands?

[Brian May]

Derek Scherger wrote:
> I had an idea the other day, where I was continually having to provide 
> a bunch of --exclude optons in a workspace with some (intentionally) 
> missing files, that it might be useful to be able to specify a set of 
> includes or excludes that persist across several commands. This would 
> avoid the need to repeatedly specify the set of paths to include or 
> exclude. It turns out to be very simple to implement and I have a the 
> basics working so I thought I'd check and see if people would 
> generally find this good, bad or ugly.

Maybe I missed something, but are you aware of the ".mtn-ignore" file 
used by the default ignore_file LUA hook? This might already do what you 
want...


Brian May