Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 22, 2007, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711221130510.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071122111600.GF10389@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:00AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I know, existing tools could rely on the location.  But then, I 
> > do not think that tools should be allowed to be _that_ married to 
> > particular implementations.  And indeed, I see no reason why a tool 
> > should access .dotest, except for accessing .dotest/patch, and then it 
> > will be very obvious where it fails.
> 
> Another reason might be something like:
> 
>   test -d .dotest && die "rebase or am already in progress"
> 
> which some of the git tools do, and which third party scripts might care 
> about.

Yep, for example this nice bash-completion addendum which changes the prompt according to the current repository's state.

I hope that a symlink .dotest -> .git/rebase (as I suggested in a reply to Martin) would help that, but in the long run I'd appreciate losing even that.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: note that even a symlink would already help the situation described by Sam.