Re: Basename matching during rename/copy detection

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> I open up gimp, draw a big red X and save it as new-button.png.  Then I 
> copy that file to open-button.png and save-button.png, knowing that at 
> some point in the future, someone will come and replace those red-X 
> images with something appropriate.

So you have a couple of identical files in your repo, which are 
placeholders. That is quite different from what I criticised of being 
stupid.

Well, I would not have checked in the files in your place, but only one:

	dumb-red-X.png

Then, my Makefile would have checked for the existence of, say, 
my-wonderful-ok-button.png, and if it does not exist yet, copy 
dumb-red-X.png to it.

Now, when somebody comes along, paining the prettiest ok button I ever 
saw, I copy that over the copy of dumb-red-X.png, and check it in.

It has the further bonus that I know exactly which buttons I have to find 
a suck^Wgifted artist for.

Ciao,
Dscho