Re: Temporary directories getting errantly added into trees

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:00AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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

I totally agree.

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.

Another reason might be something like:

  test -d .dotest && die "rebase or am already in progress"

which some of the git tools do, and which third party scripts might care
about.

-Peff