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© 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>
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Previous: <a href="Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Types And Syntax Of Ignore Lists</a>, Up: <a href="Ignore-Lists.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Ignore Lists</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h3 class="section" id="Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files-1"><span>4.3 Justification For Yet Another Set Of Ignore Files<a class="copiable-link" href="#Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
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<p>The reader may note that this format is very similar to existing
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ignore list file formats, such as those for <code class="command">cvs</code>, <code class="command">git</code>,
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<code class="command">rsync</code> etc., and wonder if another set of ignore lists is
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justified. However there are good reasons why Stow does not simply
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check for the presence of say, <samp class="file">.cvsignore</samp>, and use that if it
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exists. Firstly, there is no guarantee that a stow package would
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contain any version control meta-data, or permit introducing this if
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it didn’t already exist.
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<p>Secondly even if it did, version control system ignore lists generally
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reflect <em class="emph">build-time</em> ignores rather than <em class="emph">install-time</em>, and
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there may be some intermediate or temporary files on those ignore
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lists generated during development or at build-time which it would be
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inappropriate to stow, even though many files generated at build-time
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(binaries, libraries, documentation etc.) certainly do need to be
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stowed. Similarly, if a file is <em class="emph">not</em> in the version control
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system’s ignore list, there is no way of knowing whether the file is
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intended for end use, let alone whether the version control system is
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tracking it or not.
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<p>Therefore it seems clear that ignore lists provided by version control
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systems do not provide sufficient information for Stow to determine
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which files and directories to stow, and so it makes sense for Stow to
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support independent ignore lists.
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