Including other .hgignore files via wildcards
Yuya Nishihara
yuya at tcha.org
Wed Jun 6 13:38:52 UTC 2018
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 04:09:22 -0400, Ross Goldberg wrote:
> Circular single-file .hgignore includes currently result in an error,
Yeah, I noticed that yesterday.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5909
> so
> the only additional issues seem to me to be circular directory symlinks,
> and the increased likelihood of including .hginore files that include each
> other.
Another concern I can think of is wildcard paths will make harder to detect
file changes, which could be a problem in long-lived daemons such as fsmonitor
and command server.
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