[Unison-hackers] the unison [0-9]*.* bug

[Benjamin Pierce]

Probably you have a "backup" preference set to something beginning  
with the backup prefix (which is a number).  Unison tries to ignore  
backup files...

    - B


On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Claudio wrote:

> Hi unison developers and hackers,
>
> I've been using unison productively for quite a while. It rocks!   
> Thanks
> for it!
>
> I've encountered the behaviour that unison ignores some files even if
> there isn't a single "ignore" directive(!). For example those files  
> are
> affected:
>
> 1237678487.000102.mbox:2,S
> 20._Geburtstag
> 05.HTM
> 400.html
> 04.03.tar.gz
> 2.
> 3.3
> 4.foo
> 55.bar
>
> unison version 2.27.57 (shipped with ubuntu)
>
> So it doesnt sync my mails in ~/Maildir and a huge amount other
> documents. I found a creepy workaround:
>
> ignorenot = Name [0-9]*.*
>
> Is this bug new anyway?
>
> Greetings
>
> Claudio Harringer
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