On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: >> On 05/19/2011 11:34 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:26 +0200, Julian Foad wrote: >> >> A WC format bump is imminent, in order to rename the pristine >> text >> >> files from '<SHA1>' to '<SHA1>.pristine', as discussed in the >> thread >> >> 'Add ".svn-base" suffix to the pristine files in 1.7' started by >> >> Konstantin Kolinko on 2011-05-18, >> >> <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-05/0583.shtml>. >> > >> > Oh, it looks like the choice of name >> > >> > '<SHA1>.pristine' >> > >> > was not discussed in that thread. Two or three of us thought >> that >> > seemed like a sensible choice of name. The other reasonable >> option is >> > to keep the old extension so that the new names would be >> > >> > '<SHA1>.svn-base' >> > >> > The advantage would be that if anyone has already set up their >> tools >> > to filter out '*.svn-base' they wouldn't have to change that >> configuration. >> >> +1 for <SHA1>.svn-base > > I always like to name temp files and temp backups *.bob... since it is my > name and easy to type, find and remember... so I vote for.... > > <SHA1>.svn-base
Yes. Just wanted to add that this might be important for anti-virus configurations (excluding certain extensions, which may be a corporate-wide setting / centrally maintained and pushed to users' desktops, ...). So to save those sysadmins and endusers some trouble, I think keeping .svn-base would be best. (I voted already, but wanted to explicitly point this out) -- Johan