From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:10:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Message-ID: <7v4p6qzla3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160245440.2841@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
> tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather
> meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".

I understand moving away from .dotest/ to .git/something, but I do not
follow the logic of making that something to rebase at all.  It is a
scratch area for "am" (and applymbox), isn't it?