Steve Cotton

I get Soliton's point that a bigger change should be made to 1.19, however I disagree about blocking this PR until that's done. I feel this PR is an trivial...

I've just realised that there's a useful purpose to the blacklist. Similarly to .gitignore, it stops the backup files created by editors and wmllint from being uploaded - for that...

> If you really wanted to prevent loading of files that will probably not be uploaded then you need to first load the ignore file for that addon and use...

Thanks for logging this - it was noticed in #4359 but we forgot about it again.

The issue is malformed text - the caret handling truncated the text. With the log message from PR #4514 it's a lot easier to work out what's going wrong, although...

@soliton- any remaining concerns? I'm thinking this can merge once the comment in the tests is fixed.