[darcs-users] Default Boring File is overly ambitious

[Trent W. Buck]

Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

> Is there anyway to fix this default so that core dumps are correctly
> ignored but directories named core are not ignored?

You would need to teach Darcs to match a directory "core" as "core/", to
differentiate it from files named "core".  The current behaviour arises
because on Unix, directories are still files (but not vice versa).