[cvsnt] Re: ignore cvsignore

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Jun 13 22:03:30 BST 2005


David Somers wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> When doing an import, is there a way to get import to *ignore* using the
> ignore list in a .cvsignore file in the sandox.

> That last sentance has got me salivating for such a feature! Something
> like -I@ to ignore all, include anything in a .cvsignore)

Unfortunately it's not so simple, otherwise someone would have done it :)

The closest I could think of would be a flag that told import to 
completely ignore .cvsignore files for the duration of the import. 
Building it into the ignore logic itself looks a bit hairy...

Tony



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