Re: [darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing _darcs to .darcs

2006-03-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jamie == Jamie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And not help anything at all. File-ness is not determined by naming, unless you plan to rewrite all the _other_ tools you use besides darcs. Jamie How often do you do something destructive to /every/ file Jamie in a repo?

Re: [darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing _darcs to .darcs

2006-03-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Attributions deliberately stripped. The true fix here is not renaming _darcs/, its in stopping the current/ (pristine/) cache from appearing to be real files. David keeps talking about a mini-filesystem approach. Of course an even quicker/simpler fix might be to start

Re: [darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing _darcs to .darcs

2006-03-04 Thread Max Battcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue129 Two comments (and another plea to do things the unix way): 1. For the last couple of years that I've been tracking darcs, I've seen new users request this change many times. I haven't counted, but it appears that new users are going to

[darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing _darcs to .darcs

2006-03-03 Thread zooko
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue129 Two comments (and another plea to do things the unix way): 1. For the last couple of years that I've been tracking darcs, I've seen new users request this change many times. I haven't counted, but it appears that new users are going to continue to ask for this.