[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Why so many files ?

[Anand Kumria]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:53:22 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote:

> I'm pretty new to arch, so my question may be stupid for developers. Why
> arch keeps so many files (",,-files",
> "++-files

,,.* and ++.* are generally temporary files that are removed by Arch if
possible.  It is possible that something is going wrong that is causing
them to stay around longer than you want.

> .arch-ids,.arch-inventory) in source tree instead keeping
> them somewhere in {arch} dir ? It somewhat inconvenient.

This is no different to CVS (.cvsignore) and most other revision control
systems.

Regards,
Anand