From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:15:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160315020.2841@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6qzla3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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?

Of course, you can name it as you want.  But I thought that the name 
"rebase" applies as well: the patches are rebased from somewhere else on 
top of HEAD :-)

Ciao,
Dscho