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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
	"René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire•ath.cx>,
	"Stephan Beyer" <s-beyer@gmx•net>,
	"Joe Fiorini" <joe@faithfulgeek•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, "Jari Aalto" <jari.aalto@cante•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080716212707.GQ32184@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807160315020.2841@eeepc-johanness>

  Hi,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:15:42AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:
> > 
> > > Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be 
> > > tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather 
> > > meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
> > 
> > I understand moving away from .dotest/ to .git/something, but I do not 
> > follow the logic of making that something to rebase at all.  It is a 
> > scratch area for "am" (and applymbox), isn't it?
> 
> Of course, you can name it as you want.  But I thought that the name 
> "rebase" applies as well: the patches are rebased from somewhere else on 
> top of HEAD :-)

  even not considering the sequencer work, wouldn't "sequence" be a well
descriptive name?

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-15 21:08 Git rebase failure: .dotest overwritten Joe Fiorini
2008-07-15 21:22 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-15 21:48   ` René Scharfe
2008-07-16  0:47     ` [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16  0:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  1:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16  1:15         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16  1:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16  1:33             ` [PATCH for master] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16  1:52           ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2008-07-16  2:30             ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16  3:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 21:27           ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-07-16 21:44             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16  1:26       ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16  1:47         ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-16 19:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 18:40           ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 22:18             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 22:27               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-22 23:47               ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23  0:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23  1:13                   ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 14:54                     ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23 16:47                       ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-23 20:40                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23  0:10             ` [PATCH] am --abort: Add to bash-completion and mention in git-rerere documentation Stephan Beyer
2008-07-19 19:49           ` [PATCH] Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge" Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 19:59             ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-19 20:25               ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-19 21:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 22:39               ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-21 13:39               ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23  0:16                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-23 12:24                   ` Olivier Marin
2008-07-23 18:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-24 12:44                       ` Olivier Marin

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