Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add a rule for generating .hgignore
john.levon(a)sun.com wrote:
Add a rule for generating .hgignore
diff --git a/Makefile.maint b/Makefile.maint
--- a/Makefile.maint
+++ b/Makefile.maint
@@ -717,3 +717,5 @@ sync-vcs-ignore-files:
mv $(c2g)-t $(c2g)
perl $(c2g)
rm -f $(c2g)
+ find $(srcdir) -name .gitignore | xargs cat \
+ | sort -u | sed 's+\*+.*+' >.hgignore
There are a couple of problems when doing it that way:
.gitignore uses glob syntax, while .hgignore uses regexps by default.
You can use the "syntax: glob" directive to tell hg what to do.
hoisting subdir-specific ignore directives all into a top-level
.hgignore file is risky. What if a generated (hence ignored) file
in a subdirectory is also the name of something that must not be
ignored at some other point in the tree?
The latter risk is why I made that rule generate one .gitignore
file alongside each .cvsignore file.