[darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing "_darcs" to ".darcs"
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Mar 6 07:56:27 UTC 2006
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> 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 filename
> mungling, such as simply append ".darcs" to the end of every
> filename in current/.
>> Or even "_darcs". :-)
>> Seriously though, this does seem a nice simple solution,
>> even if it does break the repository format.
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.
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