From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees
Message-ID: <20071122104352.GB10389@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4744FCD9.7020102@vilain.net>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:51:53PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:

> I think it would be a good thing for all if you had to work very hard to
> put files like this in the tree, or perhaps it would be better to go
> through and make all the tools that create these temporary directories
> create them under .git instead.


Personally, I think they should all go under .git with very descriptive,
public names (the name ".dotest" is not really hidden from the user, and
I have never really been able to make sense of it. Surely there is some
more useful name?).

But I think there is the real possibility of damaging user scripts which
make assumptions based on the presence of .dotest (to see if we're in a
git-am or rebase session, etc). I have no idea how common such scripts
are.

-Peff