[Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"

[Eric V. Smith]

On 6/26/2013 8:18 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> On 6/26/2013 6:43 AM, a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu wrote:
>> .. or having hg "purging" unwanted build artifact (probably cleaning up
>> the .hgignore file first)
> 
> How would that work? How could hg purge the .bak, .orig, .rej, .old,
> etc. files?
> 
>>>> find $(srcdir)/* ...
>>>>
>>>> to avoid this problem. It won't expand the .hg top-level directory.
>>>
>>>    Or find \( -type d -name .hg -prune \) -o ...
> 
> I'm torn. Yours is more obvious, but we'd likely need to add .svn, .git,
> etc. Maybe find $(srcdir)/[a-zA-Z]* ... would be good enough to ignore
> all dot directories/files?
> 

Sorry for the mis-attribution. "Yours" refers to Oleg.

-- 
Eric.