From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:16:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122111600.GF10389@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711221052280.27959@racer.site>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:00AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> While we're at it, could we change the name so that it is .git/rebase, and
> not .dotest or .git/.dotest-merge?
I totally agree.
> Yes, I know, existing tools could rely on the location. But then, I do
> not think that tools should be allowed to be _that_ married to particular
> implementations. And indeed, I see no reason why a tool should access
> .dotest, except for accessing .dotest/patch, and then it will be very
> obvious where it fails.
Another reason might be something like:
test -d .dotest && die "rebase or am already in progress"
which some of the git tools do, and which third party scripts might care
about.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 3:51 Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees Sam Vilain
2007-11-22 7:30 ` Eric Wong
2007-11-22 10:43 ` Jeff King
2007-11-22 10:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-22 11:01 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-11-22 11:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-22 11:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-22 11:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-11-22 11:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-23 8:21 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-11-24 0:07 ` Sam Vilain
2007-11-23 14:44 ` Marco Costalba
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