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Re: file names

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Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2010, 18:00 UTC
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So it seems from this data, there is a preference for naming files
>> using dash over underline.
>
> Yes.
>
>> So the question is, should the files using underline be converted to
>> use dash instead?
>
> If this were before v1.0.0, it might have made some sense, but not at this
> moment.  So the answer to "should?" (or "could?") is a firm "no", which is
> always different from the answer to "wouldn't it have been nicer if they
> were named differently?"
>
Right.
What about documenting it? Is it worth, but only on version 1.8.0?
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