[Rd] R CMD check dislikes .git directories

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/04/2009 8:10 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 21/04/2009 7:59 PM, Dan Kelley wrote:
>> This may be new to 2.9.0, but I'm not sure, since I no longer have the older
>> version.
>>
>> I notice that  R CMD check  has no problem with .svn directories, but it
>> dislikes .git directories.  That seems a bit of a problem, for folks like me
>> who sometimes use git. Perhaps this behaviour could be changed?
> 
> According to the R Extensions manual, it excludes dirs named CVS, .svn, 
> .arch-ids, .bzr, and git.  Is .git the right thing to exclude instead of 
> git, or are both possible?

Actually, that looks like a typo in the manual:  the code excludes .git, 
not git.  I'll fix the typo, but it means I don't know what error you're 
talking about.  Could you post instructions for reproducing?

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> The same section points out the workaround:  use the .Rbuildignore file 
> to say what isn't really part of your package.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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