[darcs-users] Re: "boring" file

[Peter Simons]

David Roundy writes:

 > ... darcs refuses to add any files that match the boring regexp. I
 > believe that in this case darcs matches the entire filename.

Just checked it: Yes, in this case the full filename is matched.


 > It would probably be a good idea to normalize the filenames prior
 > to matching on boring.

I agree, that would make it _much_ easier for darc's users. RegExps
are tricky enough without this source of ambiguity.


 > Probably I should just bite the bullet and keep track of the full
 > paths and match against those.

At least in my use case, this would be _very_ nice. I try to maintain
the "/etc" directory of several machines with darcs, and there are
_lots_ of files I want to ignore. And most of them are not in /etc
directly, but in a sub-directory.

Peter