From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <73fd69b50807151408i6a916da6p7b89fe81e65fc717@mail.gmail.com> <20080715212211.GL6244@leksak.fem-net> <487D1B3D.70500@lsrfire.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= , gitster@pobox.com, Stephan Beyer , Joe Fiorini , git@vger.kernel.org, Jari Aalto To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 16 02:59:38 2008 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 1KIvMj-0001u2-DC for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:59:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754086AbYGPA6g (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:58:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753085AbYGPA6g (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:58:36 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43743 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753993AbYGPA6f (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:58:35 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m6G0vnfG018605 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:57:50 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m6G0vmG5030588; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:57:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.409 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED,PATCH_SUBJECT_OSDL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > 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". Ack. Please make it so. Even _I_ have now taught myself to do "git am" instead of using my old "dotest" alias. Linus