On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote: > > The current situation is plain ugly and git shouldn't stomp on any other > dir than .git I do agree. The whole (and _only_) reason for the directory being called ".dotest" is literally totally silly and historical: - I long since wrote my own stupid scripts around BK (and called my set of scripts around BK "bktools") - that script set included a script to extract the patch and description from a mailbox. - that script was called "dotest", because it started out as a testing script, and I never re-named it. And while my bktools set had other scripts in it, that was the one I used _every_single_day_, so "dotest" is not only always in my shell history, it's also hardcoded in my brainstem. - BitMover eventually merged an improved version of my mbox applicator scripts into bitkeeper, making much of it pointless, but I kept the name around as a shell macro, because it was what I was used to (I think it basically expanded into something like "bk import -temail" or something) - when I started git, I *rewrote* those old bktools for git, and created a new "git-tools" directory. And yes, the script that actually tied all the mail splitting and application together was *still* called "dotest", because it was still what I used. - again, time passes, and again, my helper scripts end up migrating into the actual SCM, now called "git applymbox" (and then later "git am"), but yet *again*, I cannot teach myself to call it anything sane, so my .bashrc file still contains alias dotest='git-am --utf8' and I still write "dotest" when I apply emails. Even though it hasn't been about "testing" for the last five years or so, and it's how I do all my work. So the temporary directory that contains all the temp-files for my "dotest" script (which was external to git) - it's called ".dotest". Of course. 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. Linus - 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
