Comment 7 for bug 29877

On 9 Mar 2006, at 02:51 , Brad Bollenbach wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29877
>
> Comment:
> On 1-Feb-06, at 7:54 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
>
>> Public bug report changed:
>> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29877
>>
>> Comment:
>> On 1 Feb 2006, James Blackwell <email address hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> The intention with printing that is that people tend to get
>>> confused when
>>> they run "bzr add <nothing>" and then later find out that a file
>>> they
>>> thought was added wasn't. The unadded file doesn't get controlled
>>> and
>>> doesn't propogate with standard bzr commands.
>>
>> I think this primarily applies to the initial import. Once people
>> are
>> up and running, as Brad is, being reminded of all the ignored
>> files is
>> just a bit annoying.
>>
>> So perhaps:
>>
>> added lib/canonical/launchpad/components/bugtarget.py
>> 1 file added
>> 73 ignored files not added
>>
>> And the help for 'bzr add' could perhaps give a clearer
>> explanation of
>> how files come to be ignored, and that 'bzr ignored' will tell you
>> about
>> it.
>>
>> The current behaviour could be present under --show-ignored.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> +1 to everything you said.

+1 from me too. It should be a simple fix if anyone would like to
try it.

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Martin Pool