[webkit-dev] minor tool improvement ideas (sharing my personal list)

[David D. Kilzer]

On Jun 20, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Darin Adler wrote:

>     cvs-clean: a script we have internally, move it to WebKitTools/ 
> Scripts
>         change to respect .cvsignore as Maciej suggested
>             turns out it's really hard to respect .cvsignore by  
> default,
>             since there are so many different sources of things to  
> ignore
>             (defaults, server-side, per-directory .cvsignore, home  
> directory .cvsignore)

It would appear that someone has already written a Perl module called  
VCS::LibCVS::IgnoreChecker (part of the VCS::LibCVS package) which  
does the heavy lifting for you.

   http://search.cpan.org/~dissent/VCS-LibCVS-1.0001/VCS/LibCVS/ 
IgnoreChecker.pm

The module is licensed, "under the same terms as Perl itself", so  
either you could redistribute it or add instructions to  
webkit.opendarwin.org about how to install the module from CPAN.

Dave