Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit (was Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> Re: log-buf-len dynamic)

[Zack Brown]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:57:37PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Robin Farine wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Davide" == Davide Libenzi <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >     Davide> It punctually happened that I fired a commit w/out a make
> >     Davide> distclean and a bunch of cr*p (mainly stuff inside
> >     Davide> autom4te.cache) went inside the patch. [...] So prefer to
> >     Davide> care one order of magnitude less (during move/add/del)
> >     Davide> instead of one order of magnitude more (during commits).
> >
> > You don't seem to realize that the inventory mechanism involves two
> > distinct notions:
> >
> > 1) tagline|explicit|name
> >    tells arch where to find the unique id (tag) of file system objects
> >
> > 2) untagged-source source|precious|backup|junk|unrecognized
> >    tells arch how to classify a non-tagged file system object
> 
> Like I said a few times before, it is difficult for me to classify
> "source" with a reg-ex rule because it frequently happen that I have
> .c/.pl/and-other-usually-recognized-as-source in my tree w/out being part
> of the repository (mainly short lived test/cr*p files).

Why not adopt a naming convention for your crap files, and then have a
simple regex to match them?

Be well,
Zack

> My future setups
> will be:
> 
> tagline (arch experts suggestion)
> +
> untagged-source unrecognized (strict commits)
> 
> Sounds good ?
> 
> 
> 
> - Davide
> 
> 
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Zack Brown