From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:52:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807151851090.2835@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160315020.2841@eeepc-johanness>



On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)

Well, the original thing was not rebasing, it was patch application. You 
could _perhaps_ call that "rebasing" from another tree, but that's a 
stretch.

But I don't really care about the name. _Anything_ is better then 
".dotest", after all.

		Linus