[Yanel-dev] search-index folders

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>> IMHO search-index folders can be safely put in svn:ignore as they can 
>> be generated and in general we'd rather have a background process do 
>> the indexing than us manually commit the changes in svn.
>
> Just wanted to explain further  why I cared about this particular detail:
>
> When contributing to projects using Yanel or Yanel itself this is a 
> pain to see what changed and what
> didn't once you have run the tests or fiddled with some of the bundled 
> realms at
> least once. one just stumbles over the same files one doesn't really
> care about over and over (and the number of unversioned files even 
> grows over time because of some
> not-so-well behaving tests, but anyway).
>
> It does not seem a big deal under the Unix command-line but under
> Windows the otherwise indispensable TortoiseSVN shows all ignored files
> *recursively* on svn status screens! And Simon said to me yesterday that
> Eclipse does more or less the same when you use svn plugins! :(
>
>
> Of course there are bigger offenders like the infamous "yarep-data"
> directories that are always only partly committed, but let's start 
> small...

agreed. Let me take a closer look at it and will reply again later on

Btw, re the search index we might want to introduce the re-indexer 
resource which we have developed for
a customer project and which I guess could be useful.

Cheers

Michi
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume
>
>