[Python-checkins] cpython: Added Doc/tools/ subdirs to .hgignore.

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:08:22 -0500
Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014, at 08:52 AM, Zachary Ware wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Why are you readding these when they were apparently purposely removed
> >> > in eef7899ea7ab?
> >>
> >> It is rather ugly to build the docs in a 3.3 checkout, then update to
> >> default and run 'hg status' without those entries in .hgignore.  I can
> >> understand not wanting to be bombarded by all of the untracked files,
> >> but it's also pretty easy to enable the purge extension and do "hg
> >> purge Doc/tools".
> >
> > This is why everyone should use the share extension and have separate
> > working copies for every branch. :)
> 
> I've been using that setup for a few months now (and cursing myself
> for not switching sooner), but I've still found myself annoyed by this
> issue a time or two since the doc build chain change.  I personally
> don't mind whether those entries are in .hgignore or not, but I don't
> see the harm in them sticking around (at least until 3.3 is out of
> maintenance; updating from 2.7 to default is a great source of
> problems even aside from this issue).

Indeed, I think it's ok to keep them.

Regards

Antoine.