On 2013-04-10 14:05:41, KENTNL wrote:
Show quoted text> There's 3 things that should probably be ignored by default:
>
> .build
> {{ $zilla->dist_basename }}
> {{ $zilla->archive_filename }}
>
> Considering that:
>
> * Those paths are practically guaranteed to exist for everyone using
> dist::zilla
>
> * everyone will want those paths ignored by default
>
> * people who are new to dist::zilla make that one of their first
> mistakes/changes to their build system
>
> It just seems sane to automatically ignore them all, and have a way to turn
> that behaviour off if somebody is *really* picky about them.
I see where you're coming from here, but beginners are also likely to be using [GatherDir] (via @Basic) rather than [Git::GatherDir], and if [Git::Check] ignored these things by default, they can easily end up being bundled up in the dist tarball by accident.
(This can still happen if one adds these patterns to a .gitignore but still uses [GatherDir], but at least they had to manually create a .gitignore, meaning they are aware these files might exist. Now, if PruneCruft automatically pruned them.... that might be more useful! And probably [Git::Check] should ignore the same things that [PruneCruft] does.)
