Nathaniel Smith wrote: > So, one issue that came up in the discussion last week about renaming > the monotone executable was what to do with the bookkeeping directory: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/6160 > Only a few people replied, and this is something that seems to incite > discussion more than any other naming-related issue (except for the > executable name being too long) -- e.g., this has come up over with > the darcs crowd repeatedly (see most recently http://bugs.darcs.net/issue129), > svn has a special hack to let you change, etc. So, since 0.26 isn't > coming out for at least a week anyway (stupid end-of-term), I'd sort > of like to hear more opinions on this, to get a sense of the community > feeling... > > The essence is: do we want the bookkeeping dir to something like: > _MTN > _mtn Leading underscore has precedence in Darcs. They use _darcs. I don't like all uppercase so I vote "_mtn".
> .MTN \__ If one of these names, also specify what the configuration > .mtn / dir in ~ should be called > .MTN-bookkeeping \__ or other less stupid suffixes accepted > .mtn-bookkeeping / too > > I guess there are probably other options, but I can't think of any. > > ALSO: please state not just what you _prefer_, but what you would > consider _annoying_. Or even _just_ what you would find annoying, > because really, this is a stupid little point where about the best we > can hope for is to minimize offensiveness. > > As a quick reminder, main arguments for underscores I know: > -- it's an easy way to see "in your peripheral vision" that a dir is > under monotone > -- umm... VMS compatibility ;-) > Main arguments for leading dots: > -- I guess some people find the presence of a bookkeeping dir at the > top level distracting? > Main arguments commonly encountered when discussing other systems (or > that might unconsciously influence intuitions), that don't apply: > -- CVS dirs are totally obnoxious > -- yes, but that's partly because they're scattered all over the > tree, so the conclusion doesn't _fully_ carry over > -- One shouldn't hide huge space-filling files inside a . dir > -- monotone is one of the few DVCSes that doesn't, so never mind > -- well, though, I guess I could imagine > > Cheers, > -- Nathaniel > VH
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