[Python-Dev] PEP: Collecting information about git

[Pierre-Yves David]

(wonderfully forgot to address the point that triggered reply)

On 09/16/2015 02:20 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>> Oleg Broytman <phd <at> phdru.name> writes:
>>> With git we can have
>>> per-directory .gitignore and .gitattributes.
>
>     No per-directory .hgignore? Never? Quite useful in a big project
> where subproject live in subdirectories and are developed by separate
> teams.

We have an inclusion mechanism that allow the top level .hgignore to 
include some other in subdirectory. This gives you the best of both 
world. skipping performance implication of subdirectory walking while 
allowing big enough subproject to have their own hgignore. Used in 
production with great success.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David