[Python-Dev] .hgignore (was: Mercurial conversion repositories)

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Mar 5, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:36:04 -0800
> Daniel Stutzbach <stutzbach at google.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> If those were to be removed from .hgignore then there would be a high
>>> likelihood of someone doing "hg addremove" and inadvertently tracking them.
>>> The purpose of .hgignore is to prevent inadventently tracking files that
>>> shouldn't be tracked.
>>> 
>> 
>> If the goal is to prevent something from being committed, shouldn't the
>> check go in a pre-commit hook instead?
> 
> Well, it's more user-friendly to help "hg addremove" work as expected,
> rather than add hooks down the line to forbid pushing any mistakes.

I concur.


Raymond