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[Python-Dev] End of the mystery "@README.txt Mercurial bug"

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Thu Jun 27 03:27:55 CEST 2013 
On 6/26/2013 9:02 AM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
> On 6/26/2013 8:44 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:18:27AM -0400, "Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
>>>>>> find $(srcdir)/* ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to avoid this problem. It won't expand the .hg top-level directory.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Or find \( -type d -name .hg -prune \) -o ...
>>>
>>> I'm torn. Yours is more obvious, but we'd likely need to add .svn, .git,
>>
>>    How many of those dot-files/directories are there beside .*ignore?
> 
> That's all I can think of. And the files don't matter in this case,
> anyway. So probably just .svn, .hg, .git is all we'd need.
> 
>>> etc. Maybe find $(srcdir)/[a-zA-Z]* ... would be good enough to ignore
>>> all dot directories/files?
>>
>>    On the other hand yes, I think it'd be enough.
> 
> I can go either way.
> 

I created http://bugs.python.org/issue18312 to track this.

-- 
Eric.
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