RFE: Proposed changes to .hgignore

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2010-07-28 17:17]:
> On 28 July 2010 21:18, Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In light of the recent changes to the build system, I was wondering if
> > anyone had nay issues with the attached changes to .hgignore?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Deepak
> >
> 
> I'd much rather it looked like the IcedTea7 version:
> 
> syntax: glob
> *~
> configure
> missing
> aclocal.m4
> autom4te.cache
> config.guess
> config.sub
> config.status
> install-sh
> Makefile.in
>
> The kind of changes you propose go further towards hiding a dirty
> source tree and have, in my experience, hidden files that need to be
> added.
> 

Ah okay. I don't mind a dirty source tree. I just thought that we were
in fact trying to hide it, given that autotools generated items were
being ignored.

If that is not the case, please disregard the patch.

Cheers,
Deepak

> If you don't want these files to show up in hg status, then we have an
> option that solves that.  It's called 'make clean'.
> -- 
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