[tex-live] mktexlsr should exclude more VCS dirs

[David Kastrup]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:

> 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?

What about CVS and RCS subdirectories (no initial dot in their name)?
Also it may be more efficient to not have alternatives starting with a
common character, something like

\.\(bzr\|git\|hg\|svn\)\|CVS\|RCS\|_darcs

-- 
David Kastrup