[darcs-users] the ongoing discussion of changing "_darcs" to ".darcs"

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Mar 9 14:47:44 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Webb <j at jmawebb.cjb.net> writes:

    >> 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.

    Jamie> How often do you do something destructive to /every/ file
    Jamie> in a repo?

Once is too often, if it's unintentional.  The right solution is the
one you mentioned: put the whole project in a subdirectory, sibling to
_darcs.


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