From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20071122104352.GB10389@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <4744FCD9.7020102@vilain.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Sam Vilain X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 22 11:44:16 2007 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 1Iv9Xb-0004G2-53 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:44:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752002AbXKVKn4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751993AbXKVKnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:55 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:3303 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751870AbXKVKnz (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:55 -0500 Received: (qmail 21958 invoked by uid 111); 22 Nov 2007 10:43:53 -0000 Received: from c-24-125-35-113.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (24.125.35.113) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:53 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:52 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4744FCD9.7020102@vilain.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:51:53PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: > I think it would be a good thing for all if you had to work very hard to > put files like this in the tree, or perhaps it would be better to go > through and make all the tools that create these temporary directories > create them under .git instead. Personally, I think they should all go under .git with very descriptive, public names (the name ".dotest" is not really hidden from the user, and I have never really been able to make sense of it. Surely there is some more useful name?). But I think there is the real possibility of damaging user scripts which make assumptions based on the presence of .dotest (to see if we're in a git-am or rebase session, etc). I have no idea how common such scripts are. -Peff