Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 5, 2008, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802052236220.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802051334070.3110@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

[Jari, keep me Cc'ed.  I missed your mail, because you didn't.]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It all makes perfect sense. Or rather, it made sense way back when. I 
> agree that it's just totally insane these days, and ".dotest/" should be 
> renamed to something like ".git/split/" or something.

But please, please, please not without a proper plan to keep people informed! I.e. a switch-over plan with deprecation and all. (IOW what I _already_ wrote to Jari.)

On at least one machine (not the current one, because I was too lazy), I have a git alias to call when the patch does not apply, to call another program in turn which made it easier for me to integrate a non-applying patch into the current working directory.

And guess what: this script accesses .dotest/. Yes, I know, it was _prone_ to move.

But I am lucky, I read the git list regularly, I know what truck is going to hit me if I do not change that alias.

However, there are others. And while we like to give everybody way too much rope, we should not willfully run a truck in the direction of unsuspecting users.

Ciao, Dscho