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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge"
 to "rebase-merge"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:15:42 +0200 (CEST)
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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