Re: ESR's intimidatingly huge task list

[Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>]

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On 23 January 2014 21:22, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>:
> > > They are not identical, for example leading ./ in bzrignore maps to
> > > leading / in gitignore.
> >
> > Are there any other major differences besides this?
>
> None that are used in the Emacs tree.  I researched this when working
> on reposurgeon's bzr support; the only other problem appears to be bzr
> "RE:" expressions.
>
> > I've replaced the ./ with / in bzrignore and use it with git now.
> > If this looks good I'll commit it to trunk.
>
> It might simplify things on conversion day if you don't.
>
> The goal of the final polished conversion is to make it look as though
> git had been in use all along - that way people won't see distracting
> changes in behavior when they check out old revisions.
>
> This means I'm going to have to write some reposurgeon procedure or
> facility to
> map .bzrignores to .gitignores throughout the history.  Having a .gitignore
> already in the tree at final conversion time might complicate that.
>

We already have some .gitignore files lying around so this ship has sailed.
I think it makes sense to merge the proposed changes and remove the
.gitignore files in the subdirectories.
Even now people are using the bzr repo via git-brz and they'd benefit from
a proper .gitignore file.



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