john.levon@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.