[PATCH] using .gitignore file should use glob as default syntax

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Tue Feb 5 15:41:50 CST 2013


On Feb 5, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Ben Kehoe wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Ben Kehoe <benk at berkeley.edu>
> # Date 1359580170 28800
> # Node ID 0b5ff522049db893f4d1afb2030cd721f8e17761
> # Parent  1516d5624a2911fcb90ee051c6dc0679b49aef55
> using .gitignore file should use glob as default syntax
> 
> .gitignore files use glob syntax instead of regexp.
> When a repo is configured to use a custom ignore file named .gitignore, it
> should be parsed using relglob syntax. This is implemented by adding a
> default syntax parameter to ignorepats(), which when passed as None keeps
> the current behavior. In readpats(), files named exactly '.gitignore' pass
> 'relglob' to ingorepats() as the default syntax.
> Tests are added to verify the behavior.
> This patch will work in concert with a patch to hg-git to automatically use
> the .gitignore file if it exists.

I think this is unwise. gitignore[1] glob syntax and semantics are different from hgignore[2]. In particular, gitignore globs are relative to the .gitignore file (which also needn't be at the repo root!); globs in hgignore aren't rooted to anything.

[1]: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
[2]: http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/ignore

This also isn't what the ui.ignore config option is intended for; it's meant to specify per-*user* ignore files. Mercurial doesn't provide a way for you to specify an alternate ignore file for a *repository* -- and using ui.ignore to do this will lead you to pain when you forget to configure it on one of your clones.

What would be better is a hunk of code to automatically convert a .gitignore file into an .hgignore file. (I've been wanting this for a while, probably for the same reasons you wrote this patch.)

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