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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-02-28 18:23:22 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-02-28 18:23:22 +0200
commitd767c357ca8ca59097d8ee7c06309efc1688f368 (patch)
tree5a0ac81bb9fbc7833fe252cf28a25ed35ca11d4f
parentff729e3f975f8391658cf22c4715552054ed25c1 (diff)
parent4dec693f703464bab68ec751f341927c5489d592 (diff)
downloademacs-d767c357ca8ca59097d8ee7c06309efc1688f368.tar.gz
Merge branch 'emacs-27' of git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs into emacs-27
-rw-r--r--lisp/vc/vc-cvs.el21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-cvs.el b/lisp/vc/vc-cvs.el
index b6afda69198..e8231ecb289 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-cvs.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-cvs.el
@@ -1222,23 +1222,24 @@ is non-nil."
(defun vc-cvs-ignore (file &optional directory _remove)
"Ignore FILE under CVS.
-FILE is either absolute or relative to DIRECTORY. The basename
-of FILE is written unmodified into the ignore file and is
+FILE is either absolute or relative to DIRECTORY. The non-directory
+part of FILE is written unmodified into the ignore file and is
therefore evaluated by CVS as an ignore pattern which follows
glob(7) syntax. If the pattern should match any of the special
-characters ‘?*[\\\’ literally, they must be escaped with a
+characters `?*[\\' literally, they must be escaped with a
backslash.
CVS processes one ignore file for each subdirectory. Patterns
are separated by whitespace and only match files in the same
directory. Since FILE can be a relative filename with leading
-diretories, FILE is expanded against DIRECTORY to determine the
-correct absolute filename. The directory name of this path is
-then used to determine the location of the ignore file. The base
-name of this path is used as pattern for the ignore file.
-
-Since patterns are whitespace sparated, it is usually better to
-replace spaces in filenames with question marks ‘?’."
+directories, FILE is expanded against DIRECTORY to determine the
+correct absolute filename. The directory part of the resulting name
+is then used to determine the location of the ignore file. The
+non-directory part of the name is used as pattern for the ignore file.
+
+Since patterns are whitespace-separated, filenames containing spaces
+cannot be represented directly. A work-around is to replace such
+spaces with question marks."
(setq file (directory-file-name (expand-file-name file directory)))
(vc-cvs-append-to-ignore (file-name-directory file) (file-name-nondirectory file)))