From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=F8gsberg?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:24:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1202253890.26144.8.camel@gaara.boston.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jari Aalto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 06 00:26:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JMXBM-0006ac-H7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:26:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763075AbYBEXZz (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:25:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757113AbYBEXZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:25:54 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33666 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761938AbYBEXZx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:25:53 -0500 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m15NOuhB024568; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:24:56 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m15NOuto015237; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:24:56 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.105] (dhcp83-9.boston.redhat.com [172.16.83.9]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m15NOuLh004026; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:24:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.21.4 (2.21.4-1.fc9) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:41 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > [Jari, keep me Cc'ed. I missed your mail, because you didn't.] > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > It all makes perfect sense. Or rather, it made sense way back when. I > > agree that it's just totally insane these days, and ".dotest/" should be > > renamed to something like ".git/split/" or something. > > But please, please, please not without a proper plan to keep people > informed! I.e. a switch-over plan with deprecation and all. (IOW what I > _already_ wrote to Jari.) > > On at least one machine (not the current one, because I was too lazy), I > have a git alias to call when the patch does not apply, to call another > program in turn which made it easier for me to integrate a non-applying > patch into the current working directory. Aha, that's the script we're talking about :) > And guess what: this script accesses .dotest/. Yes, I know, it was > _prone_ to move. > > But I am lucky, I read the git list regularly, I know what truck is going > to hit me if I do not change that alias. I think there's a correlation here: anybody who's meddling with git implementation details (yes, I'm talking about .dotest here) is probably also subscribed to this list :) Seriously though, in git there is often no clear line between implementation details and supported features, so it's way to easy to claim everything is set in stone and that the world will break if we change it. Especially if you've written a script that happens to reach a little to far into the git guts. Kristian