Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just got through a rather nasty debugging session with git-rebase, > which relies on a .dotest directory. Turns out that .dotest was > accidentally added to the tree in the history of the commit that was > being rebased onto. Hi Sam, Ouch > There are a lot of temporary files like that made by various scripts - > eg, git-filter-branch makes .git-rewrite, etc. > > I think it would be a good thing for all if you had to work very hard to > put files like this in the tree, or perhaps it would be better to go > through and make all the tools that create these temporary directories > create them under .git instead. Polluting the working tree is definitely a bad thing to do IMNSHO. git-rebase --merge already puts its temporary directory inside .git/.dotest-merge. I hoped to set an example with that and get more tools to do the same; but it hasn't happened yet... -- Eric Wong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
