[darcs-devel] New ignore and unignore commands

Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com
Wed Sep 13 14:08:01 PDT 2006


On 9/13/06, Eric Y. Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, another patch which I would be interested in is one that adds
> tests for the mechanism.  What tests exactly, I'm not entirely sure.
> Some examples might be making sure that ignored files really are
> ignored, that there aren't any weird interactions between boring
> and ignored, that commands like pull and apply *still* affect
> ignored files, etc.  Do think this would be a sensible step to take?

Some test case ideas:
Do you use regexp to remember which files to ignore?  Maybe you use
'words' or 'lines' on the filename? If so, maybe add tests where file
names have regexps or spaces in them.

Jason




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