[darcs-users] rename "_darcs" to ".darcs" ?

[Michael Milverton]

I like the current mechanism because it is easy to see that a folder contains 
a repository. Dot files make a lot of sense when they are in one location 
like a home directory but I feel that in a distributed environment it is not 
as clean and could possibly lead to thoughtless mistakes an errors.

Thankyou
Michael Milverton
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:56 pm, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
> If "_darcs" were named ".darcs" then the normal Unix "hidden files"
> feature would hide it from certain commands.
>
> For example, I could do "grep -r fixme *", and the grep command would
> not look into the ".darcs" directory.  Currently I have to do "grep -r
> fixme * | grep -v _darcs", or else "mv _darcs .darcs ; grep -r fixme *
> ; mv .darcs _darcs".
>
> In addition to the convenience of that, it would also help Unix users
> understand the intent -- if they look in a directory and see a
> directory named ".darcs", they immediately know that it is a directory
> for the use of the "darcs" tool and that they can ignore it when
> dealing with their own files.
>
> It would also give them a nice warm fuzzy feeling that darcs was
> playing along with time-honored conventions instead of changing things
> arbitrarily.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
>
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