[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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