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Keshav Kini

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Oct 16, 2011, 6:29:18 AM10/16/11

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Hi all,

I was browsing through $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/.hgignore and noticed that some specific filenames are mentioned which don't seem to exist in my installation of Sage (4.7.2.alpha3 built from source). Might these files come into being some time in the future if I install certain SPKGs or something, or are they cruft which should be removed from the .hgignore file? I notice the .hgignore file hasn't been changed since 2009, and hasn't been changed by any more than a few lines here and there since 2007, which makes me suspect the latter, but I'm not sure, hence this post.

-Keshav

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Jonathan

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Oct 17, 2011, 1:43:22 PM10/17/11

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Create a ticket listing the files you think should be removed.

Keshav Kini

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Oct 18, 2011, 4:36:03 AM10/18/11

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Well, I don't know what should be removed. I was hoping someone could explain to me why .hgignore is the way it is. By "specific filenames" I mean those regular expressions in .hgignore which can only match one file (and currently match no files), not particular lines in the .hgignore file among those which match the former description. By the way, it seems many of the lines are even redundant as other lines subsume them. For this I could set up a ticket, but it would be nice to know the reasons for the lines being there in the first place.

Robert Bradshaw

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Oct 18, 2011, 5:04:34 AM10/18/11

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You can see the history of that file at
http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main/annotate/2a2abbcad325/.hgignore .
Some of those listings are 5-year-old cruft that never got cleaned up
or is no longer relevant.

- Robert

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