[PATCH 1/2] --cvs-exclude for mkfs.jffs2

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Tue Nov 29 05:41:00 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 11:09 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <v0mzjofaup.fsf at marajade.sandelman.ca> you wrote:
[...]
> > This adds an option to ignore CVS directories.
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me. You can and should use "cvs export" to
> create the directory trees you want to package.

Or do a `find \( -name CVS -o -name .svn \) -print0 | xargs -0r rm -rf`
before.
Especially the name `.KEEP_ME` is not even standardized (more .keep
IIRC) - not even in the CVS world AFAIK.

> You use  CVS,  others  use  GIT,  or  Subversion,  or  ClearCase,  or
> Monotone,  or darcs, or ... - it would not be really practical to add
> special rules for everybody's favorite tool.

Ar at least name and implement the option as '--exclude' similar to
`tar` and `diff`.

	Bernd
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