Subject: bug#7516: [PATCH] lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path) Exclude more VCS dirs

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:34:09 -0500

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Wouldn't it make more sense to skip anything that starts with a dot?

The very next line does:

(string-match "\\`[[:alnum:]]" file)

so this change seems unnecessary (the function is documented to behave
in this way). Empirically, .svn etc directories are already skipped,
so I don't see any point to this patch.