Bug 16732 – Update svn:ignore properties for autotools build

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Rodney Dawes]

The autotools build creates several additional files and directories which need to be ignored by svn status and other svn commands.

[Rodney Dawes]

Created attachment 18272 [details]
Patch for using to update svn:ignore properties

Since svn:ignore changes are not applyable to the repository with the patch command, I had to pull the properties out into files which the properties then get set by reading. After applying this patch, you will need to run the following command, to actually change the svn:ignore properties, and subsequently delete the .svnignore files which are only useful for this process:

for i in `find . -name .svnignore`; do svn propset svn:ignore `dirname $i` -F $i; rm -f $i; done

This command will set the svn:ignore properties based on the contents of the .svnignore files, and then delete those files.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Most of this can be taken care of by fixing the autotools build to store it's build output into WebKitBuild like the other ports do.  This will still leave configure, GNUmakefile, and a few others that will need to be ignored, but the list will be much smaller.  I would much prefer to see that fixed rather than having to sprinkle these properties all over the source tree.

[Alp Toker]

I think we should add the toplevel ignores sufficient to give a clean svn stat when building out-of-tree. Maintaining all the ignores on each subdirectory as new code and modules are added is too much work. ie. a subset of these:

--- .svnignore	(revision 0)
+++ .svnignore	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+.deps
+.libs
+DerivedSources
+Programs
+WebKitBuild
+icu
+iconv
+libxml
+libxslt
+zlib
+WebKitSupportLibrary.zip
+INSTALL
+GNUmakefile
+GNUmakefile.in
+README
+aclocal.m4
+aconfig.h
+autom4te-2.5x.cache
+autom4te.cache
+compile
+config.guess
+config.log
+config.status
+config.sub
+configure
+depcomp
+install-sh
+libtool
+missing
+ltmain.sh
+stamp-h1
+stamp-webkit-marshal.h

[Alp Toker]

Comment on attachment 18272 [details]
Patch for using to update svn:ignore properties

Could you reduce this to only cover the minimum necessary as I described in my previous comment?

Good way to check this is mkdir release && cd release && ../autogen.sh, then see what SVN stat says.

Thanks

[Alp Toker]

Subset of these ignores landed in r29530. Re-open the bug if you think there need to be more ignores. I skipped README/INSTALL since it's conceivable someone will write these eventually.