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

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Wed Jun 26 15:02:46 CEST 2013


On 6/26/2013 8:44 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:18:27AM -0400, "Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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,
> 
>    How many of those dot-files/directories are there beside .*ignore?

That's all I can think of. And the files don't matter in this case,
anyway. So probably just .svn, .hg, .git is all we'd need.

>> etc. Maybe find $(srcdir)/[a-zA-Z]* ... would be good enough to ignore
>> all dot directories/files?
> 
>    On the other hand yes, I think it'd be enough.

I can go either way.

-- 
Eric.


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