want to specify a file pattern for 'bzr add'

[Martin Pool]

Hi!

It is possible to use (or to add as an option) "bzr add" with a include pattern, so that only files matching a certain pattern will be added? This is a quite helpful option in hg add, and helped to only add for instance *.cpp *.h and to not accidentally add compiled or whatever files to the rep.

Greetings,
Andre

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

There are two possible workarounds:

1- Add ignore patterns for things you don't want to add, then do 'bzr add' on a directory or on the whole tree.

2- Let your shell do the pattern expansion, eg 'bzr add **/*.cpp'

[Andre Massing (massing)]

Thanks for the pointer, learned a bit about my shell and activating the
globstar pattern ("shopt -s globstar" for bash). That is a good
workaround, but nice, that you added an item to the wishlist, since an
option would make it platform- and shell-independent from a user's point
of view.

Martin Pool wrote:
> There are two possible workarounds:
>
> 1- Add ignore patterns for things you don't want to add, then do 'bzr
> add' on a directory or on the whole tree.
>
> 2- Let your shell do the pattern expansion, eg 'bzr add **/*.cpp'
>
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>

[grigsoft (grigsoft)]

I think this can be extended to optional usage of "include" logic, instead of "ignore". This can be done either by supporting negative rules in .ignore, like:
*
!*.cpp
!*.h
to include just these files, or, even better, create .include file to list interested files.