Re: Keep directory in working tree, but exclude from foo.diff.gz
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:34:04 +1000, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> said:
> However:
> ===== $ man dpkg-source [...] -i[regexp] You may specify a perl
> regular expression to match files you want filtered out of the list of
> files for the diff. [...] There can only be one active regexp, of
> multiple -i options only the last one will take effect. [...]
> $ dpkg-source --help [...] -i[<regexp>] filter out files to ignore
> diffs of (defaults to:
> '(?:^|/).*~$|(?:^|/)\.#.*$|(?:^|/)\..*\.swp$|(?:^|/),,.*(?:$|/.*$)|(?:^|/)(?:DEADJOE|\.cvsignore|\.arch-inventory|\.bzrignore|\.gitignore)$|(?:^|/)(?:CVS|RCS|\.deps|\{arch\}|\.arch-ids|\.svn|\.hg|_darcs|\.git|\.shelf|_MTN|\.bzr(?:\.backup|tags)?)(?:$|/.*$)').
> [...] =====
> Yikes. So, in order to filter out an additional pattern, I can't just
> say "ignore this pattern as well as the defaults". I have to construct
> a *single* regexp that contains the default pattern *plus* mine, and
> forever diverge from any future changes to the default regexp.
Yes. However, the "defaults to:" only applies to if you add the "-i"
option with no regexp given. i.e. if you weren't using "-i" already,
then dpkg-source wasn't ignoring anything in the first place.
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