From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:41:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jari Aalto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 05 23:43:31 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 1JMWV9-0000NZ-M4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:42:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762463AbYBEWmR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:42:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762348AbYBEWmR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:42:17 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44176 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1762460AbYBEWmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:42:14 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Feb 2008 22:42:12 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 05 Feb 2008 23:42:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+8vaZa8+W8yfdEqp1/2l98pCZVKCOLhbc9w7TXo7 wmNOM/fXF6A1OX X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, [Jari, keep me Cc'ed. I missed your mail, because you didn't.] On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It all makes perfect sense. Or rather, it made sense way back when. I > agree that it's just totally insane these days, and ".dotest/" should be > renamed to something like ".git/split/" or something. But please, please, please not without a proper plan to keep people informed! I.e. a switch-over plan with deprecation and all. (IOW what I _already_ wrote to Jari.) On at least one machine (not the current one, because I was too lazy), I have a git alias to call when the patch does not apply, to call another program in turn which made it easier for me to integrate a non-applying patch into the current working directory. And guess what: this script accesses .dotest/. Yes, I know, it was _prone_ to move. But I am lucky, I read the git list regularly, I know what truck is going to hit me if I do not change that alias. However, there are others. And while we like to give everybody way too much rope, we should not willfully run a truck in the direction of unsuspecting users. Ciao, Dscho