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From: | Larry Hastings |
Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] [bikeshed] once more on bookkeeping dirs... |
Date: | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:00:21 -0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) |
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
0.26 is coming out that soon? I figured it was months away. Rock on!So, since 0.26 isn't coming out for at least a week anyway (stupid end-of-term), As a Windows guy, it doesn't make any difference to me. If I get tired of looking at the directory I can always set the "hidden" bit. I suppose I would find a lengthy name like .MTN-bookkeeping-directory-nobudy-cumz-in-here-sekrit tiresome.I'd sort of like to hear more opinions on this, to get a sense of the community feeling... I take it the leading underscore is to help with sorting order? I find that a bit strange, as it would sort to the middle, between the upper- and lower-case characters. Though I guess it's preferable to sorting to the middle of the upper-case letters, as M does. Still, ever the iconoclast, how about a plus-sign, as in +MTN? That would sort it to the head of the directory every time, and it's not a special character to any shell I know of. (And, yes, I genuinely expect that suggestion to go exactly nowhere.) I've stood near a VMS system on several occasions, and even looked at the chassis of one once while a coworker pointed at it. I am ambivalent on whether monotone should limit its options in order to accomodate VMS's antiquated filesystem semantics. After all, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I understand that VMS has been on its way out for years. (Truthfully, I'm surprised that folks are using bleeding-edge software like monotone on something as, well, non-bleeding-edge as VMS.) One possible solution would be a mtn command that prints the basename of the bookkeeping directory on the local computer, so that scripts can ask for it by name. Thus a well-written script could run unmodified on VMS. A poorly-written script could get diffs from people who care ;) Cheers, larry |
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