From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:30:40 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <4744FCD9.7020102@vilain.net> <46a038f90711220301o1cbb16b7g79eea541f8ca5e58@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Sam Vilain , Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 22 12:31:08 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 1IvAGs-000248-GL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:31:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751930AbXKVLap (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:30:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751780AbXKVLap (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:30:45 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59854 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751676AbXKVLao (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:30:44 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2007 11:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO openvpn-client) [138.251.11.103] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 22 Nov 2007 12:30:42 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Yi3hCKe2Y+wToTAHsAljzujOK+Vqgfj4gm5D7f0 h/UB2YHRRH0Fd3 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46a038f90711220301o1cbb16b7g79eea541f8ca5e58@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 11:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin > > > ... 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. > > when it comes to .dotest/patch, it must be reasonably accessible. When > git-am refuses to apply a patch, and I am resolving things by hand, I > need it pretty handy. I also sometimes edit .dotest/msg-clean. Maybe install a .dotest/ symlink for a few "git eons", i.e. some 6 months? Although this will not work on Windows, I see not much problems in it, since Windows users are not big in scripting (at least the git type) anyway. Ciao, Dscho