Peter Verswyvelen
Regarding these files that people forget to checkin. Doesn't every project have a well define directory structure? Shouldn't the "prefs/boring" file use this fact to encapsulate the rules of file inclusion and exclusion? Isn't it safer to checkin too many files (by accident) than forgetting one? Shouldn't this behavior be the default?
IMO: No. My development directories tend to litter up with files containing test input data, output data, profiling data, and all kinds of junk. Better to occasionally forget a file and get an error message in the mail when somebody else tries to use it (i.e. non-strictly) than have my darcs repository and Hackage sdists working but littered with junk. (My current testing involves 118GB of input data, you sure you want to see that on Hackage? :-) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants