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 18:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <73fd69b50807151408i6a916da6p7b89fe81e65fc717@mail.gmail.com> <20080715212211.GL6244@leksak.fem-net> <487D1B3D.70500@lsrfire.ath.cx> <7v4p6qzla3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= , Stephan Beyer , Joe Fiorini , git@vger.kernel.org, Jari Aalto To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 16 03:53:55 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 1KIwDK-0005Gy-H8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:53:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752094AbYGPBw4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753470AbYGPBw4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:56 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35936 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751067AbYGPBwz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:55 -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 m6G1q7eq021376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:52:08 -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 m6G1q6PF032677; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:52:06 -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: > > 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 :-) Well, the original thing was not rebasing, it was patch application. You could _perhaps_ call that "rebasing" from another tree, but that's a stretch. But I don't really care about the name. _Anything_ is better then ".dotest", after all. Linus