[cvsnt] Re: Best practice: .cvsignore files

Gerhard Fiedler lists at connectionbrazil.com
Mon Jul 10 00:19:42 BST 2006


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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> As others have said ignore policies should normally be global.  There isn't a 
> whole lot to be gained by everyone ignoring different patterns of files... in 
> fact it'll lead to confusion as one developer commits a file that the other is 
> ignoring.

What happens is that sometimes people have private but project-related
files in their sandbox that don't belong in the repository. That's why we
created the policy how to name those; you can then always create a Myfoo.h
file or a MyPhotos folder, and they'll be ignored.

Gerhard



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