On 21 December 2012 09:54, Yvan Roux yvan.roux@linaro.org wrote:

Matt, do you have something particular in mind to put in a shared and versioned .bzrignore file ? My understanding of its usage is that it is more a user side configuration of the archive. (Maybe we could chat about this topic on another channel)

Yes this conversation should probably be conducted elsewhere :-) - moved to linaro-toolchain.

If you look at upstream SVN GCC and do svn propget svn:ignore you get a long list of files that SVN is set up to ignore. And whilst there isn't a .gitignore other upstream projects which have git mirrors do put a .gitignore in place (see GDB for instance).

I think having a .bzrignore which is a copy of the svn:ignore set up (and the defaults that SVN ignores but aren't on bzr's list) would be valid in the repo. Although as I said in the original thread - let's do this when we branch 4.8 and not to the historic branches.

Thanks,

Matt

-- Matthew Gretton-Dann Linaro Toolchain Working Group matthew.gretton-dann@linaro.org