From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Introducing 'unrecognized and 'ignored Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:56:19 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080107125619.GD9920@thyrsus.com> References: <200801031805.m03I5SBf022748@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801050901.m0591mQj011970@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <20080105143415.GG30869@thyrsus.com> <200801061037.m06AbIRD004966@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200801070259.m072xY0s005194@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <20080107032649.GD9473@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199710578 22386 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 12:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, harsanyi@mac.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 13:56:39 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBrWt-0001Iv-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:56:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrWW-00086y-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrWR-00086h-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrWQ-00086V-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBrWQ-00086S-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBrWN-0000kT-5V; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id D260B41C316; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:56:19 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86470 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > > Seems reasonable to me as well, except -- do we really want to show all > > uncontrolled files and have no option to suppress them? > > I don't understand: every VCS I know has some way to label files as "to > be ignored". So there is always an "option to suppress them". Yes, but you sure don't want to have to set an ignore property by hand on every member of a huge tree you happen to have in your working directory and *don't* want to be in the repo. This case is already annoying me. -- Eric S. Raymond