[tex-live] mktexlsr should exclude more VCS dirs
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Fri May 16 11:31:20 CEST 2008
Hi all,
We got the following suggestion concerning mktexlsr:
On Do, 15 Mai 2008, Michael Schutte wrote:
> /usr/bin/mktexlsr currently excludes .svn directories only. I???d like to
> maintain parts of my ~/texmf tree in Git, which badly clutters ls-R at
> the moment. The attached patch supports the most usual DVCSes; it would
> be great if you could review and probably apply it for the next
> revision.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Michael Schutte <m.schutte.jr at gmail.com>
> --- a/mktexlsr 2008-04-22 19:37:01.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/mktexlsr 2008-05-15 17:08:59.000000000 +0200
> @@ -154,10 +154,11 @@
> # We do not try to support colons in directory names.
> #
> echo "./:" >>"$db_file_tmp"
> + VCSDIRS='\(\.svn\|\.git\|\.bzr\|\.hg\|_darcs\)'
> (cd "$TEXMFLS_R" && \ls -LRa 2>/dev/null) \
> - | sed -e '/^$/{n;s%^\./%%;s%^%./%;}; /^\.$/d; /^\.\.$/d; /^\.svn$/d;' \
> + | sed -e '/^$/{n;s%^\./%%;s%^%./%;}; /^\.$/d; /^\.\.$/d; /^'$VCSDIRS'$/d;' \
> -e '/^[\.\/]*lsR[0-9]*\.tmp:*$/d' \
> - | sed -e '/\.svn.*:$/,/^$/d' \
> + | sed -e '/'$VCSDIRS'.*:$/,/^$/d' \
> >>"$db_file_tmp"
>
> cat "$db_file_tmp" > "$db_file"
THis patch actually looks quite reasonable to me, so what about
including it in our texlive repository?
Any comments/remarks/objections please?
Best wishes
Norbert
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