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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ian Booth <ian.booth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> I currently have a mp for review which moves the various launchpad log
> and trace files from the root directory to a logs subdir directly off
> the root directory.
...

Thank you so much.

> The reason for doing this is that it results in:
> - a cleaner project directory,

One of my great unrequited passions.

> - easier management of the files,
> - a more robust .bzrignore entry (no need to enumerate all possible log
> files, just a single "log" entry will do),
> - allows IDE's to be easily configured to ignore log files, saving lots
> of CPU and parsing overhead.
> - more accurate project wide greps if log files can be easily excluded,
> which they can be if they're all in the one sub directory

I guess this is a benefit, but if you haven't learned to love 'bzr
grep' yet, you're missing out.

jml