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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 12-06-25 04:26 PM, Benji York wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Aaron Bentley
> <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 12-06-25 03:43 PM, Benji York wrote:
>>> Ah!  I didn't know that once added changes to the README
>>> wouldn't be ignored, so I thought the negative ignore was
>>> important.  Good to know.
>> 
>> Yes.  In fact, ignoring only affects UI, and only affects 
>> unversioned[1] files.  So essentially it controls the behaviour
>> of "add" and "commit --strict" and the output of "status" and
>> "ignored".
>> 
>> [1] An "unversioned" file is one whose changes are not tracked
>> by Bazaar.  "ignored" and "unknown" are sub-categories of
>> "unversioned".
> 
> Thanks for the info.  So, negative ignores are useful when you want
> to be sure you see a file listed as unknown when that file normally
> does not exist and who's existence would otherwise be masked by the
> active .bzrignore.  Right?

Right.

> If so, that seems like a narrow use case.

I tend to agree, but the rationale was given in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/428031 and a discussion:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/61638

> But good bzr trivia.  Is there a geek pub game company we can
> submit this to? ;)

:-)

Aaron
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