[Unison-hackers] Hello!

[Benjamin Pierce]

I'd be glad to see something done along these lines.  Main problem I  
can see is designing something reasonably general that is not too (a)  
expensive or (b) difficult for people to understand how to use...

     - Benjamin

On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Cameron Thorne wrote:

> As I mentioned on unison-users, I'd really like to see a patch that
> lets Unison read files on the fly as it scans a replica, and adds
> ignore Paths on the fly based on what it finds.  Suggested by Martin
> Pohlack over on unison-users, I think implementing functionality that
> works just like GNU tar's --exclude-tag-all option seems to make
> sense.
>
> I have never worked with OCaml before, nor am I familiar with the
> Unison source code (yet), but I'd like to learn more about it to the
> point where I could submit a patch for this feature that is up to your
> coding standards.  I'll be hacking at that for a while I'm sure.
>
> I'll start with the guidelines for "Where to start" you posted on the
> website, and in the READMEs, but I'm sure I'll be back for questions
> along the way.
>
> Just wanted to introduce myself for now.
>
> -- Cameron
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