[PATCH 3 of 3] ignore: process hgignore files in deterministic order

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Thu Dec 20 20:29:05 UTC 2012


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> Why does this matter?
>

It doesn't yet. But in the happier shinier future of inotify, we will want
to know if a client and server's hgignore data are in sync, which will
involve the client sending a hash of its hgignore data to the server to
validate. We need a well-defined order to make that future hash stable.
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