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

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 29 November 2005 11:09:37 +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.
> 
> 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.

More importantly.  People may actually want to _keep_ the magical
subdirectories.

Write one tool to do one thing and do it well.  Applies here as well.

Jörn

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