[RFC] Add *.orig/*.rej to svn:ignore in src?

[Tom Evans]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I noticed that we have a handful of patterns currently ignored in svn:ignore (at least at the top-level… the lower levels don't appear to be set in any particular manner):
>
> $ svn propget svn:ignore
> _.tinderbox.*
> _.amd64.*
> _.arm.*
> _.i386.*
> _.ia64.*
> _.mips.*
> _.pc98.*
> _.powerpc.*
> _.sparc64.*
> _.sun4v.*
>
> $ svn info | grep URL:
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head
>
>         I was wondering if *.orig and *.rej should be added to the list as well to avoid checking in patch `artifact` files?
> Thanks!

svn:ignore is not recursive, so this would only prevent orig/rej files
being committed if they are at the top level, which they are unlikely
to be.

This is best handled personally in ~/.subversion/config

Cheers

Tom