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

[Josh Boyer]

On 11/29/05, Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> writes:
>     Wolfgang> In message <v0mzjofaup.fsf at marajade.sandelman.ca> you wrote:
>     >> This adds an option to ignore CVS directories.
>
>     Wolfgang> This doesn't make sense to me. You can and should use "cvs
>     Wolfgang> export" to create the directory trees you want to package.
>
>   yes, one could do that. I chose not to.
>   It isn't like I forced this option to be on.
>
>   cvs export requires that I actually check my changes in before I can test
> them, which causes a lot of needless churn.
>   It may also mean that developers in my team will check in debug statements
> and forget to remove them.
>
>     Wolfgang> You use CVS, others use GIT, or Subversion, or ClearCase, or
>     Wolfgang> Monotone, or darcs, or ... - it would not be really practical
>     Wolfgang> to add special rules for everybody's favorite tool.
>
>   It would very much be practical to do this.
>   I'd rather have a more general --exclude.
>
>   Of course, you argue for removing equivalent options from rsync and other
> things.  Accept the patch or not.

I believe the answer is "not".

josh