From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>,
"Stephan Beyer" <s-beyer@gmx.net>,
"Joe Fiorini" <joe@faithfulgeek.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Jari Aalto" <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:15:42 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160315020.2841@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6qzla3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Hi,
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
> > tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather
> > meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
>
> I understand moving away from .dotest/ to .git/something, but I do not
> follow the logic of making that something to rebase at all. It is a
> scratch area for "am" (and applymbox), isn't it?
Of course, you can name it as you want. But I thought that the name
"rebase" applies as well: the patches are rebased from somewhere else on
top of HEAD :-)
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 21:08 Git rebase failure: .dotest overwritten Joe Fiorini
2008-07-15 21:22 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-15 21:48 ` René Scharfe
2008-07-16 0:47 ` [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 1:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 1:15 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-07-16 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 1:33 ` [PATCH for master] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 1:52 ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16 2:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 3:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 21:27 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-16 21:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 1:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 1:47 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-16 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 18:40 ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 23:47 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 0:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 1:13 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 14:54 ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23 16:47 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 20:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 0:10 ` [PATCH] am --abort: Add to bash-completion and mention in git-rerere documentation Stephan Beyer
2008-07-19 19:49 ` [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 19:59 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-19 20:25 ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 21:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 22:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-21 13:39 ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23 0:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 12:24 ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24 12:44 ` Olivier Marin
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