From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:09:27 -0800 Message-ID: <43737EC7.6090109@zytor.com> References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 10 18:12:32 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaFvk-000071-5m for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:09:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751057AbVKJRJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:09:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbVKJRJk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:09:40 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:31879 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751057AbVKJRJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:09:39 -0500 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAAH9RWo007486 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:09:29 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > - Add git-lost+found. Currently the implementation stores > found refs under .git/lost+found/{commit,other} > directories, but writing out their object names to the > standard output and let the users decide what to do with > them was suggested on the list by Daniel, which makes sense > as well. There are pros and cons so until we know if it is > useful and if so in what form, it will not come out of "pu" > branch. > May I *STRONGLY* urge you to name that something different. "lost+found" is a name with special properties in Unix; for example, many backup solutions will ignore a directory with that name. -hpa