Comment 3 for bug 209025

This is a missing feature that's really annoying.

In git you have a number of options for ignoring files on different levels (see http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/). As for the situation described in this issue, an entry to the local repository's "$GIT_DIR/info/exclude" file would do the trick.

It would be great to have a similar file in Bazaar, e.g. "$BZR_DIR/checkout/exclude", preferably coupled with a --local flag to the "bzr ignore" command to easily ignore files only in the local repository.

A workaround for now is to add absolute path entries to your global ignore file in "~/.bazaar/ignore", though that can quickly become polluted and chaotic with a number of projects.

My reason for wanting this feature is over on Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2176530