add: strange behavior for -X option

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Wed Jan 18 15:23:10 UTC 2006


Luc Saillard wrote:
>>then try to add the files from inside source/, but would like to ignore the
>>CVS directory:
>>
>>    $ cd source/
>>    $ hg add -X CVS .
>>    adding CVS/Entries
>>    adding CVS/Repository
>>    adding CVS/Root
>>    adding main.c
> You need to specify hg add -X 'glob:**CVS' to exclude CVS directory

all this pattern stuff is quite counter intuition.  maybe we should come 
up with some (several?) sane pattern types and select the most 
userfriendly as default.  it still could be changed via hgrc.  (same 
goes for hgignore, by the way)

cheers
   simon

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