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(2 November 2023), a program for managing farms of symbolic links.
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Software and documentation is copyrighted by the following:
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© 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Bob Glickstein <bobg+stow@zanshin.com>
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© 2000, 2001 Guillaume Morin <gmorin@gnu.org>
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© 2007 Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson <kahlil@internode.on.net>
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© 2011 Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>
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<title>Motivation For Ignore Lists (Stow)</title>
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Next: <a href="Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Types And Syntax Of Ignore Lists</a>, Previous: <a href="Ignore-Lists.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">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="Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists-1"><span>4.1 Motivation For Ignore Lists<a class="copiable-link" href="#Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists-1"> ¶</a></span></h3>
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<p>In many situations, there will exist files under the package
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directories which it would be undesirable to stow into the target
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directory. For example, files related version control such as
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<samp class="file">.gitignore</samp>, <samp class="file">CVS</samp>, <samp class="file">*,v</samp> (RCS files) should typically
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not have symlinks from the target tree pointing to them. Also there
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may be files or directories relating to the build of the package which
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are not needed at run-time.
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<p>In these cases, it can be rather cumbersome to specify a
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<samp class="option">--ignore</samp> parameter for each file or directory to be ignored.
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This could be worked around by ensuring the existence of
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<samp class="file">~/.stowrc</samp> containing multiple <samp class="option">--ignore</samp> lines, or if a
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different set of files/directories should be ignored depending on
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which stow package is involved, a <samp class="file">.stowrc</samp> file for each stow
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package, but this would require the user to ensure that they were in
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the correct directory before invoking stow, which would be tedious and
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error-prone. Furthermore, since Stow shifts parameters from
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<samp class="file">.stowrc</samp> onto ARGV at run-time, it could clutter up the process
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table with excessively long parameter lists, or even worse, exceed the
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operating system’s limit for process arguments.
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<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-ignore-lists-1"></a>
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<p>Therefore in addition to <samp class="option">--ignore</samp> parameters, Stow provides a
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way to specify lists of files and directories to ignore.
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