Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi,

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> I think there's a correlation here: anybody who's meddling with git 
> implementation details (yes, I'm talking about .dotest here) is probably 
> also subscribed to this list :)  Seriously though, in git there is often 
> no clear line between implementation details and supported features, so 
> it's way to easy to claim everything is set in stone and that the world 
> will break if we change it.  Especially if you've written a script that 
> happens to reach a little to far into the git guts.

I think you are being unfair here:

Imagine git-am stops somewhere because the patch fails.  What to do?  
Where to look?  What to fix?

Exactly.  You have _only_ one option.  You look into .dotest/.

So yes, it is an implementation detail.  But one that we could not 
_possibly_ hide.

What's so wrong with using a symlink first, trying hard not to break 
peoples' assumptions, then tell them that they should change their scripts 
(which they can do lazily now, since both .dotest/ _and_ .git/rebase/ 
are valid)?

How is being nice to people wrong?

Ciao,
Dscho