Re: Speeding up vc-dired still more

[Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>]

On 28 Dec 2007, at 6:25 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Alexandru Harsanyi <harsanyi@mac.com>:
>> Perhaps `vc-dired-ignorable-p' should be a backend function
>> (vc-BACKEND-dired-ignorable-p).  I'm thinking that the CVS backend  
>> could
>> look at .cvsignore for the list of files to ignore, the SVN  
>> backend at
>> .svnignore, and so on.  This way, Emacs will ignore the same set  
>> of files
>> as the VC backend would ignore when used in command line mode.
>
> It shouldn't *be* a new backend function, but it should probably  
> *call*
> such a function.

This is what I intended to say too :-)

> The reason I say that is that there are some ignorable
> files that don't fit in the .svnignore/.cvsignore model.
>
> As an example, right now I have in there logic to ignore Makefile if
> it has a peer named Makefile.in or Makefile.am.

At least for the Emacs repository, .cvsignore lists Makefile so it is  
ignored by CVS.
A `vc-cvs-dired-ignorable-p' implementation  which looks only  
at .cvsignore will ignore the Makefile with no extra logic.

>
> This is a good idea, but I have several higher-priority changes in my
> queue.  Are you interested enough to do it?

I'm happy to make these changes, I will send you a patch for review.
>

Best Regards,
Alex.