does not create .bzrignore automatically

[John A Meinel]

I did a conversion from a cvs project, and then started bzr explorer on the result.

I went to Settings / Ignores / Working Tree Ignores

and it started an editor that immediately popped up a "file does not exist" dialog, and then exited. (I believe it was Wordpad)

If you look at the 'bzr ignore' command, it has the logic to create and start versioning .bzrignore when needed.

I think bzr-explorer probably needs to include some of that functionality. Otherwise it is quite difficult to 'bootstrap' your ignore file.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

Note that I get the same failure trying to go to "locations" or "credentials".

Perhaps it could be considered a failure of Wordpad that it immediately exists rather than creating the file.

Though ideally (IMO) we shouldn't be spawning an editor for these, but instead bringing up a nice configuration gui that knows the syntax of the files, and provides you with dialogs/wizards for configuring new entries.

[Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)]

So this limitation is editor dependent but given Wordpad is the default on Windows, I need to fix this as a priority.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

I'd happy to implement qignore dialog because .bzrignore content should be utf-8 encoded, IIRC? I'm sure Wordpad is wrong choice to edit utf-8 encoded files.