Re: [EGIT] [PATCH v1 1/1] Add an ignored icon

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I just checked, TortoiseSVN has the overlay for ignored items on by default

The difference is TortoiseSVN does not come with a set of global default
ignored files (as far as I know). Eclipse does, see Team->Ignored...

So, a globally ignored file such as foobar.BAK would show up as
non-decorated if shared using the CVS or SVN plugins, but with an icon
if shared with Git. That might be confusing to users, especially since
the minus-sign icon does not have any history in Eclipse as something
being "ignored" (it actually breaks the convention of using
non-decoration -- meaning no "untracked"-icon -- to signal ignored).

So, I would still argue that we should leave it off by default.

For now I think that's acceptable. However, when I complete the work
on the ignores then we should switch it on:
I plan to let EGit NOT look at the Eclipse global ignore list because
the ignores are defined by .gitignore files for git repositories.
At that point it totally makes sense to decorate ignored resources
because these are configured in .gitignore files