From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:25:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rebase.sh: Change .dotest directory to .git-dotest
Message-ID: <prvbxfhl.fsf@blue.sea.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802051524580.8543@racer.site>

* 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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