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  • Committer: Martin Pool
  • Date: 2008-04-10 00:53:43 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 3353.
  • Revision ID: mbp@sourcefrog.net-20080410005343-fskdg5wra14srnxw
Clearer explanation of ignore/add in user guide.

From https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/28805

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    config.h                 ./config.h
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    configure.in~            *~
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It is OK to have either an ignore pattern match a versioned file, or to
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add an ignored file.  Ignore patterns have no effect on versioned files;
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they only determine whether unversioned files are reported as unknown or
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ignored.
 
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Note that ignore patterns are only matched against non-versioned files,
 
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and control whether they are treated as "unknown" or "ignored".  If a file
 
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is explicitly added, it remains versioned regardless of whether it matches
 
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an ignore pattern.
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The ``.bzrignore`` file should normally be versioned, so that new copies
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of the branch see the same patterns::