bug#55632: [PATCH] Add new user option project-vc-find-tracked-only

[jan.synacek@posteo.org]

On 01.06.2022 00:57, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Here's the reasoning I used:
> 
> - Almost everyone works with a VCS. Let's use Git in this example.
> - You start working on a new feature to your project. You add a couple
> of new source files, write tests for them. Haven't checked them in
> yet.
> - To switch between the project files you probably use
> 'project-find-file'. You are likely to use that function (or
> 'project-find-regexp'), etc, during the initial phase of developing a
> new feature as well, and to jump between the newly created files, and
> their tests, etc.
> - That creates expectation that new files should be considered part of
> the project. And overall, false positive is usually better for this
> kind of thing than false negative (not finding something that you
> expect to be there).
> 
> Using .xyzignore files to list files that are junk/unimportant/etc is
> par for the course when using a VCS. Until a file is added there (or
> checked in), it's very visible in 'git status'. Having them omitted
> from the list of project files would make them much less "visible",
> contradicting Git's (or Mercurial or etc) behavior.

Ok, fair enough. I guess this makes sense as well.