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Bo Berglund wrote: >>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. > > Ignored by who and for what?? Ignored for example by the cvs update command. I don't get long lists of irrelevant files with question marks in front of them that I have to check each time to make sure I didn't forget to add a file. Ignored also for example by GUI frontends like WinCvs and TortoiseCVS. For example, after a few hours work on an issue, I can go to the top level directory and call the TCVS "add contents" dialog, and it won't propose ignored files for addition. (This can be enabled, but let's just assume it's not.) Serves the same purpose as above: I don't have to repeatedly look through the same list of files that shouldn't show up here in the first place. I find it helpful to list as ignored everything that is in a sandbox that doesn't belong in the repository. Gerhard