458008 - Handle even more .mozconfig files in .hgignore

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Patch

Bug 389826 added .mozconfig, .mozconfig.mk and .mozconfig.out files to .hgignore.  I tend to keep at least a couple of .mozconfig files named such as .mozconfig-dbg and .mozconfig-opt for debug and optimized builds, and when building an optimized version, for example, I do:

cp .mozconfig-opt .mozconfig
make -f client.mk build

I think we can further improve the .mozconfig handling in .hgignore to enable such use cases.  See the attached patch for the approach I'm proposing.

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

for this use, I would personally recommend expanding *your* hgrc file to have those additional mozconfig ignores, rather than do in tree.

existing .mozconfig ignores are good enough, and we do have the MOZCONFIG environ var that is also referenced for the multiple config uses.

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> for this use, I would personally recommend expanding *your* hgrc file to have
> those additional mozconfig ignores, rather than do in tree.
> 
> existing .mozconfig ignores are good enough, and we do have the MOZCONFIG
> environ var that is also referenced for the multiple config uses.

This is mostly a convenience issue, and I'm not that much urged to get this into the tree.  So, I'll wait and see what Benjamin thinks here, and if he feels the same way, we can WONTFIX it.  :-)

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 341245 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Let's WONTFIX this