From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:16:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees
Message-ID: <20071122111600.GF10389@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711221052280.27959@racer.site>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:00AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> While we're at it, could we change the name so that it is .git/rebase, and 
> not .dotest or .git/.dotest-merge?

I totally agree.

> Yes, I know, existing tools could rely on the location.  But then, I do 
> not think that tools should be allowed to be _that_ married to particular 
> implementations.  And indeed, I see no reason why a tool should access 
> .dotest, except for accessing .dotest/patch, and then it will be very 
> obvious where it fails.

Another reason might be something like:

  test -d .dotest && die "rebase or am already in progress"

which some of the git tools do, and which third party scripts might care
about.

-Peff