From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:41:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/bundle: Use the more conventional suffix '.bundle'
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902081139280.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200902072302.36991.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:21:49 Santi Béjar wrote:
> > Although it does not matter in general it is handled different by
> > "git clone", as it removes it to make the "humanish" name of the
> > new repository.
> 
> I'm mixed on this, particularly with the increasing numbers of MySysGit 
> users we attract.

Why should that pose any problems?  We are living in the 21st century, and 
even that crappy FS called FAT knows how to handle "extensions" longer 
than 3 characters.

Rather than making it confusing for everybody, we could drag some DOS 
types (kicking and screaming, probably) into their future.

Ciao,
Dscho