Re: [Bug-stow] Protected Stow Directory

[Adam Spiers]

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 06:56:51AM -0400, 顔無し wrote:
> Hello and thank you for developing Stow.

You're welcome, and very sorry for the slow reply.  These days I'm
processing my Stow backlog in batches every 6-12 months.  You can
blame Donald Knuth for giving me the idea ;-)

> I just began using version
> 2.2.2 with Perl v5.24.1 and noticed the stow directory name is not
> allowed to begin with a period (e.g. ".stow" as opposed to "stow").
> Stow gives an error that reads "WARNING: skipping protected directory
> ." and immediately aborts operation.  Is this intended behavior?  If
> so, what is the rationale?  I was unable to find any mention of
> "protected" directories in the man/info pages.

Yes, this is intended, and even documented :-)

http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Multiple-Stow-Directories.html#Multiple-Stow-Directories