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

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Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date
Feb 5, 2008, 21:25 UTC
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* Tue 2008-02-05 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> If at all, it should be in .git/rebase/
Much better.
> we have a different directory already for interactive rebase and rebase 
> -m, .git/.dotest-merge/ (which could have been a better name, too).
Yes, that should go to .git too.
> But the consensus was that there might be scripts relying on the name of 
> the directory

Who would use or rely on the internal workings of git-rebase? The will not be any considerable amount of those. I'm confident that those people have enough expertise to change their scripts.

The current situation is plain ugly and git shouldn't stomp on any other dir than .git

Jari
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Message 4 of 12 in “git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest”
  1. git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotestJari Aalto, Feb 5, 2008
  2. Mike HommeyFeb 5, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2008
  4. Jari AaltoFeb 5, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsFeb 5, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2008
  7. Jari AaltoFeb 5, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 6, 2008
  10. Kristian HøgsbergFeb 5, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 6, 2008
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