Branch specific ignores is slightly incorrect

[John A Meinel]

It feels a bit odd to set "Branch Specific/Ignores", rather than having it a working-tree property.

Certainly with lightweight checkouts it is clear that they are WT specific (since you can have 2 checkouts of the same branch, and have locally modified different ignore lists.)

However, this is mostly about how we want to display things to the user. It is possible that this is simply "Won't Fix"

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I should also mention that the way the menu is laid out, it emphasizes setting global ignores, which will *not* be versioned (and thus not propagated to other users who check out your branch).

I don't know the relative frequency of ignoring:

1) Local stuff like editor temporary files, local test files, etc.
2) Build products that stick in the tree (.pyc, .pyo) that everyone needs to ignore.

I *think* the latter is more common, which means that modifying the local ignore is more useful than modifying the global ignore.

(From SVN experience, people tend to modify their global ignores because the local ignores are not recursive. Which I've seen lead to lots of people doing "add + commit" and adding .obj, .pdb, .exe, etc files, just because they kept showing up as needing to be added.)

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

I'd like a smart applet (like qconfig) that provided a graphical tool for setting and editing ignores. Ideally, it would allow you to edit both the per-tree and per-user settings, copying/moving between the two.

The "Settings/Branch specific" menu is a bit of a placeholder/hack until that's available - it didn't exist in the original mock-up FWIW. Perhaps it's worth inverting the layout though to something like:

Configuration >
  Branch Configuration
  Per User Configuration
Ignores >
  Working Tree Ignores
  Per User Ignores
Rules
--
Locations
Credentials

Would that be better?

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

Sorry, changed the status on the wrong bug. :-(

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

Fixed in rev 187.