Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2008, 00:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlk5y7vv4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052303060.8543@racer.site>

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

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> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> Sloppy scripts are best left to script writers headache.
>
> I see no sloppy behaviour when somebody sees that git-am (which uses 
> the same directory!) has no way of handling a non-applying patch, and then 
> writes a script that accesses .dotest/patch.

It may count sloppy not to feed the improvements back, though.

Of course, if the reason is because somebody is ashamed of the script being too hacky for public consumption, then not feeding is not sloppy at all. But then probably that makes the script sloppy. That somebody is sloppy either way, isn't s/he? ;-)

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> But I _see_ some sloppy behaviour of somebody not following netiquette, 
> responding to a certain mail, but not to the original poster!
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho "who is annoyed"

JC "who is trapped in day-job".