Re: [PATCH] doc/bundle: Use the more conventional suffix '.bundle'

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Feb 8, 2009, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <200902080404.57187.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0902080141s11b53127ufa83918c00b4579b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 08 February 2009 03:41:04 Santi Béjar wrote:

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> 2009/2/8 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>:
> > On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:21:49 Santi Béjar wrote:
> >> Although it does not matter in general it is handled different by
> >> "git clone", as it removes it to make the "humanish" name of the
> >> new repository.
> > I'm mixed on this, particularly with the increasing numbers of MySysGit
> > users we attract.  Perhaps it would be better to teach clone to remove
> > .bdl as well.
> I don't have an opinion as I don't know exactly the situation for
> MSysGit users, but I don't think it is a good idea to have two
> suffixes.

Why not? It seems preferable to use .bundle since it is more easily recognized, but .bdl is nice for system that are limited to a 3 byte extensions. Existing MIME types have multiple extensions. It is unlikely Git is run on a system that only allows 3 bytes extensions though, most of the ones that I'm aware of don't like 38 byte filenames.

I'm warming to this patch

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