Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 12:06 US/Pacific, Tom Lord wrote:

> > true, it's served well on unix for a long time to name directories 
> > that the
> > user normally shouldn't have to interact with starting with a dot. 
> > CVS broke
> > this but it so rarely caused a problem due to the nature of the 
> > directory's
> > content .. but with arch it obviously (going by the list traffic) 
> > causes a lot
> > of discomfort.
>
> That's funny.  I've reached the opposite conclusion from list traffic.

	I agree that .arch-ids is a lot more pleasant than CVS, but {arch} 
isn't necessarily any better.  It's still visible and globs still match 
it.

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Dustin Sallings