Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"

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  Hi,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:15:42AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be 
> > > tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather 
> > > meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
> > 
> > I understand moving away from .dotest/ to .git/something, but I do not 
> > follow the logic of making that something to rebase at all.  It is a 
> > scratch area for "am" (and applymbox), isn't it?
> 
> Of course, you can name it as you want.  But I thought that the name 
> "rebase" applies as well: the patches are rebased from somewhere else on 
> top of HEAD :-)

  even not considering the sequencer work, wouldn't "sequence" be a well
descriptive name?

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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