Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [REJECT: address@hidden (default naming convention changes)

[Matthieu Moy]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> 2) .o, .a, .so, .core, and .so* do not belong in junk.
>    Those files can be very, very valuable _and_ difficult or
>    impossible to reproduce.   "junk", meanwhile, is comprised of files
>    that may be casually deleted.

Then, shouldn't they belong to "precious" instead of "unrecognized" ? 

> 3) .rej does not belong in unrecognized.   For example, suppose I am
>    going to replay a few different patches (as I did when
>    cherry-picking for this merge before deciding not to commit it).
>    I may get conflicts in an early one but keep going anyway.
>    Putting .rej in unrecognized would cause problems.

>From my  point of view,  the risk of  loosing information in  the .rej
files is  bigger than this. The  objective of default values  is to be
useable by beginners,  and I think beginners don't want  to be able to
commit with a .rej file in the way. 

I  agree that  .rej belonging  to unrecognized  can be  a  problem for
advanced  users,  but  this category  of  user  is  able to  edit  his
=tagging-method file. Beginners may not (yet).

-- 
Matthieu