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2023-01-17
15:30		• Closed ticket [4e8410bfd6]: Add something similar to cvsignore feature plus 5 other changes artifact: ff10cc6aa1 user: stephan
2010-03-15
20:32		• Ticket [4e8410bfd6]: 1 change artifact: a78b51bc77 user: anonymous
17:41		Add a --ignore option to the "extra" command, and an "ignore-glob" setting which causes files with given patterns to be ignored. Tickets [705181a992c] and [5125de2e624]. See also ticket [4e8410bfd69]. check-in: 3555c0fc6f user: drh tags: trunk
2009-12-31
04:29		• Ticket [5125de2e62] Enable type of file (extension) to be ignored (e.g. .OBJ)* status still Closed with 1 other change artifact: 414413b7ca user: jeremy_c
04:29		• Closed ticket [705181a992]: like something similar to .gitignore plus 2 other changes artifact: dc765a024e user: jeremy_c
2009-10-26
16:08		• Ticket [5125de2e62] Enable type of file (extension) to be ignored (e.g. .OBJ)* status still Open with 2 other changes artifact: 07f8837c0a user: anonymous
2008-12-12
07:36		• Deferred ticket [4e8410bfd6]: Add something similar to cvsignore feature plus 1 other change artifact: 31a243f74e user: kkinnell
2008-12-09
23:17		• Ticket [4e8410bfd6]: 1 change artifact: 97a058ba36 user: anonymous
17:03		• Ticket [4e8410bfd6]: 2 changes artifact: 2e8be91f64 user: kkinnell
2008-12-07
03:26		• New ticket [4e8410bfd6]. artifact: fdcbc34c4d user: anonymous

Ticket Hash:	4e8410bfd697c846259595f3f58a587721331ce3
Title:	Add something similar to cvsignore feature
Status:	Closed	Type:	Feature_Request
Severity:	Minor	Priority:
Subsystem:		Resolution:	Overcome_By_Events
Last Modified:	2023-01-17 15:30:50 3.21 years ago	Created:	2008-12-07 03:26:39 17.33 years ago
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Description:
It would be nice to have such feature as cvsignore one. I know that it is frequently asked question, but found no such feature request. Also, it looks like fossil will silently ignore any file or directory which name starts from ".". kkinnell added on 2008-12-09 17:03:54: If you are using a shell that follows the unix conventions, dot files—files that start with a '.' character—will be ignored unless they are explicitly included. As an example, if you have files named '.file' and '.faxes', and want to `add` them using globbing you'd type: fossil add .f* To get all of your dot files you'd need to be a little trickier, because '.' and '..' are directory names. In bash you'd use fossil add .[^.]* The point is that the dot files are being intercepted by the shell on non-Windows systems, and may be being intercepted on Windows systems—dot files are a bit problematic and you have to be careful about them. IMHO: The `CVSIGNORE` isn't actually that useful if you are not creating a new repository from a clean source tree, or not using a recursive `add`. Until the recursive add fix (see e02ffabcda) there wasn't any way to get fossil to add files that were not explicitly requested. You could still get unwanted files by injudicious file globbing, but that wasn't fossil's fault. Personally, I probably won't use recursive add on an 'as is' source tree. I'll clean it up until it only contains the files I want, then `add` them, and maybe then copy the, er, "unclean" source tree back. anonymous claiming to be Ilia Frenkel added on 2008-12-09 23:17:26: After the second thought I do agree with you. It is not so urgent feature. If you keep your source tree clean you should be OK without it. anonymous claiming to be RBerteig added on 2010-03-15 20:32:24: As a long time CVS user, I find that most of my .cvsignore entries are there to keep CVS quiet about build products and various intermediate files that come about from testing (gcov data, and so forth). It makes it easier to tell at a glance that all the important files are accounted for. Given the fossil extra and fossil clean features, I've already felt the lack of some way to inform fossil that I know some files exist but that they are not "extra" and should not be removed by "clean". Without that, I'm really tempted to patch the fossil clean out of my copy.
User Comments:
stephan added on 2023-01-17 15:30:50: Fossil's "ignore-glob" setting provides this capability.