On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:00AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > While we're at it, could we change the name so that it is .git/rebase, and > not .dotest or .git/.dotest-merge? I totally agree. > Yes, I know, existing tools could rely on the location. But then, I do > not think that tools should be allowed to be _that_ married to particular > implementations. And indeed, I see no reason why a tool should access > .dotest, except for accessing .dotest/patch, and then it will be very > obvious where it fails. Another reason might be something like: test -d .dotest && die "rebase or am already in progress" which some of the git tools do, and which third party scripts might care about. -Peff - 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
