[bug#66961] [PATCH] scripts: hash: Handle repository with different VCS folders.

[Simon Tournier]

Hi Ludo,

On mar., 14 nov. 2023 at 14:44, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> How about ‘vcs-directories’ rather than ‘vcses’?
>
> Also, you can add:
>
>   (define %known-vcs-directories
>     '(".bzr" …))
>
> and use it to avoid repeating it.

[...]

> Maybe you can have:
>
>   (define (vcs-predicate directory)
>     (define directories
>       (filter (lambda (metadata-directory)
>                 (file-exists? (in-vicinity directory metadata-directory)))
>               %known-vcs-directories))
>
>     (lambda (file stat)
>       (vcs-file? file stat directories)))
>
> and then use that above?  (That way we don’t stat these things when
> ‘exclude-vcs?’ is #false.)

Thanks for the feedback.  See v2.

Cheers,
simon

PS: Sorry, I have sent twice v2; missed an option with my new
experimental setup. :-)