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
/lurk
Let me get this straight, the leading dot (ie .SVN) is just a trick
to make it hidden on Linux/Unix right?
Don't carry that onto windows, if you want it hidden on all platforms,
use . on the platforms where it is appropriate, and use the hidden
attribute on windows, and so on for all
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
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 18:31 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
[...] 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
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:04:10PM -0600, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
.MTN-bookkeeping \__ or other less stupid suffixes accepted
.mtn-bookkeeping / too
Why hide it? Be proud of your choice in VCS, and show the world. ;p
Hm, this is a good idea. Leaving aside the prefix question, a
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
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
I seriously think we should decouple the renaming of things from the
0.26 release. Since all of this is so bike-shed-y anyhow,
Derek Scherger wrote:
I seriously think we should decouple the renaming of things from the
0.26 release. Since all of this is so bike-shed-y anyhow, there's no
sense rushing into something silly for the sake of this one, already
big, release. None of what we've seen is any better, or any
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
The essence is: do we want the bookkeeping dir to something like:
_MTN
This gets my second vote. My first vote goes to plain MTN.
Regarding the configuration dir, I think it should be ~/.monotone on
Unixy things, %APPDATA%\monotone on Win32 and whatever VMS likes
