Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

I just got through a rather nasty debugging session with git-rebase, 
which relies on a .dotest directory.  Turns out that .dotest was 
accidentally added to the tree in the history of the commit that was 
being rebased onto.

While we're at it, could we change the name so that it is .git/rebase, and 
not .dotest or .git/.dotest-merge?

Yes, I know, existing tools could rely on the location.  But then, I do 
not think that tools should be allowed to be _that_ married to particular 
implementations.  And indeed, I see no reason why a tool should access 
.dotest, except for accessing .dotest/patch, and then it will be very 
obvious where it fails.

But I don't know about QGit, StGit, etc...

Ciao,
Dscho