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Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2005, 18:58 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>Naming and Directory Structure
>>------------------------------
>>Annotations are named by appending ".txt" to the basename of the
>>repository component it describes, and by appending ".dir" to each
>>directory patch component leading to the repository component from
>>$GIT_DIR, and by prepending "annotations/" to the annotation pathname.
> 
> I suspect you can do the same without .dir but only with .txt.
Think about a directory containing directories "foo" and "foo.txt":
With ".dir":
	foo.dir/
		...
	foo.txt
	foo.txt.dir/
		...
	foo.txt.txt
Without ".dir":
	foo/
		...
==>	foo.txt
==>	foo.txt/
		...
	foo.txt.txt
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  1. Santi BéjarSep 6, 2005
  2. A Large Angry SCMSep 6, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  4. [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation ConventionA Large Angry SCM, Sep 8, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2005
  6. A Large Angry SCMSep 8, 2005
  7. Matthias UrlichsSep 11, 2005
  8. A Large Angry SCMSep 11, 2005
  9. Matthias UrlichsSep 13, 2005
  10. A Large Angry SCMSep 8, 2005
  11. A Large Angry SCMSep 9, 2005

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