[darcs-users] darcs get ignores prefs

[Andrew Pimlott]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:23:04PM +0000, Scott Parish wrote:
> By the way, it might be worth mentioning in the manual that the path
> to boringfile is relative to the top of the repository (not the prefs
> directory). That was why i ignored setpref's boringfile to begin with.

I edited the boring documentation once and thought about saying this,
but I felt it was implied by the note that the boringfile should be
added to the repository.  Also, darcs doesn't use a term for the "root"
of the repository, and I was reluctant to introduce one.  How is this?

Andrew

New patches:

[clarify that boringfile is a repository path
andrew at pimlott.net**20041012205127] 
<
> {
hunk ./RepoPrefs.lhs 95
 You may want to have the boring file under version
 control.  To do this you can use darcs setpref to set the value
 ``boringfile'' to the name of your desired boring file (e.g.\ ``darcs
-setpref boringfile .boring'', where the .boring is a file that has been
+setpref boringfile .boring'', where .boring is the repository path of a file
+that has been
 darcs added to your repository).  The boringfile pref overrides
 \verb!_darcs/prefs/boring!, so be sure to copy that file to the boringfile.
 
hunk ./RepoPrefs.lhs 104
 file in your home directory, named \verb!~/.darcs/boring!, which will be
 used with all of your darcs repositories.
 
-Any file whose full path (such as \verb!manual/index.html!) matches any of
+Any file whose repository path (such as \verb!manual/index.html!) matches any of
 the boring regular expressions is considered boring.  The boring file is
 used to filter the files provided to darcs add, to allow you to use a
 simple ``darcs add newdir newdir/*'' without accidentally adding a bunch of
}



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