Re: Can meld ignore directories?

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 27 August 2010 06:32, Kai <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 17 August 2010 16:16, Yaniv Ben Yosef <yanivby gmail com> wrote:
>> Hello Kai,
>> Yes, I'm talking about the version control browser.
>> It would be great if it could work as you describe, but if it's too
>> difficult to hook the VCs into this logic - an acceptable alternative (IMO)
>> would be to make the file filters work for that view.
>
> I don't think we actually want to do this... I'd expect that people
> would be somewhat surprised to see file filters applying to the VC
> browser.
>
> IIRC we already respect VC-specific ignore lists (for git at least),
> so all that's required is the necessary logic to stop recursing when
> we hit an ignored directory, and confidence that this isn't going to
> break anything.

Turns out this isn't that easy. Before even getting to adapting the
logic in vcview, I hit an issue with git and obtaining a list of
ignored directories. If anyone knows how to get git to tell you what
it's ignoring, help would be much appreciated.

cheers,
Kai