Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:51:53PM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:

I think it would be a good thing for all if you had to work very hard to
put files like this in the tree, or perhaps it would be better to go
through and make all the tools that create these temporary directories
create them under .git instead.

Personally, I think they should all go under .git with very descriptive,
public names (the name ".dotest" is not really hidden from the user, and
I have never really been able to make sense of it. Surely there is some
more useful name?).

But I think there is the real possibility of damaging user scripts which
make assumptions based on the presence of .dotest (to see if we're in a
git-am or rebase session, etc). I have no idea how common such scripts
are.

-Peff