<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 08:58, Thomas Spura <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.spura@googlemail.com">thomas.spura@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Stefan Behnel <<a href="mailto:stefan_ml@behnel.de">stefan_ml@behnel.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Antoine Pitrou, 02.04.2012 13:50:<br>
>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 19:44:00 -0500<br>
>> Brian Curtin wrote:<br>
>>> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 17:31, Matěj Cepl wrote:<br>
>>>> On 1.4.2012 23:46, Brian Curtin wrote:<br>
>>>>> For what reason? Are the git or bzr files causing issues on HG?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> No, but wrong .gitignore causes issues with git repo obtained via<br>
>>>> hg-fast-import. If it is meant as an intentional sabotage of using git (and<br>
>>>> bzr) for cpython, then that's the only explanation I can understand,<br>
>>>> otherwise it doesn't make sense to me why these files are in HG repository<br>
>>>> at all.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Then you won't understand. Sometimes things get out of date when they<br>
>>> aren't used or maintained.<br>
>>><br>
>>> You're welcome to fix the problem if you're a Git user, as suggested earlier.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, these files will always be outdated, so we might as well<br>
>> remove them so that at least git / bzr users don't get confused.<br>
><br>
> How often is anything added to the .hgignore file? I doubt that these files<br>
> will "sufficiently always" be outdated to be unhelpful.<br>
<br>
</div>How about using symlinks and only using a common syntax in .hgignore<br>
that git also understands?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because .hgignore has a more expressive syntax. We shouldn't hobble or make messy our hg repo just for the sake of git. </div></div>