[PATCH] hgignore: ignore the PyCharm workspace folder

[Martin Geisler]

Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> On 10/13/2014 05:59 AM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>
>> El 13/10/2014 14:14, "Mads Kiilerich" <mads at kiilerich.com
>> <mailto:mads at kiilerich.com>> escribió:
>>  >
>>  > On 10/13/2014 11:48 AM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> # HG changeset patch
>>  >> # User Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com
>> <mailto:angel.ezquerra at gmail.com>>
>>  >> # Date 1413193564 -7200
>>  >> #      Mon Oct 13 11:46:04 2014 +0200
>>  >> # Node ID a175222b250090e80a6047979451bfdbaf04267c
>>  >> # Parent  76a648d782cfadf1dac3dbc194a8ffc74c385cb5
>>  >> hgignore: ignore the PyCharm workspace folder
>>  >>
>>  >> diff -r 76a648d782cf -r a175222b2500 .hgignore
>>  >> --- a/.hgignore Tue Sep 02 09:01:47 2014 +0200
>>  >> +++ b/.hgignore Mon Oct 13 11:46:04 2014 +0200
>>  >> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
>>  >>   .DS_Store
>>  >>   tags
>>  >>   cscope.*
>>  >> +.idea/*
>>  >>   i18n/hg.pot
>>  >>   locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
>>  >>   hgext/__index__.py
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > It doesn't work at scale to add ignore patterns for every single IDE
>> out there. Especially not partly proprietary ones. Wouldn't it be better
>> if pycharm users put this in their ui.ignore file?
>>  >
>>  > /Mads
>>  >
>>
>> I see your point but the reality is that there are not that many Python
>> IDEs with a large user base. I could name 4 or 5 IDEs that are really
>> popular. If we include some popular text editors the list could maybe be
>> extended to about a dozen. Would adding that many extra lines to
>> mercurial's hgignore file be a problem, considering that they would be
>> added on a case by case basis (i.e. when someone sent a patch such as
>> this one)?
>>
>> Anyway, I can see your point. I'd prefer having this in, but if you guys
>> don't feel the same that would be ok too.
>
> Not fan of adding all possibles IDE there. But we already have ignores
> for emacs and vim file. I can see Angel point about popular IDE. +0 on
> this.

I think adding patterns for popular IDEs makes a lot of sense. It will
make things nicer out of the box for these developers. Here I would
simply define "popular" as being used enough that someone cares to
submit such a patch :)

-- 
Martin Geisler

http://google.com/+MartinGeisler
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