Subject: Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:58:29 -0400

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>>Naming and Directory Structure
>>------------------------------
>>Annotations are named by appending ".txt" to the basename of the
>>repository component it describes, and by appending ".dir" to each
>>directory patch component leading to the repository component from
>>$GIT_DIR, and by prepending "annotations/" to the annotation pathname.
> 
> I suspect you can do the same without .dir but only with .txt.

Think about a directory containing directories "foo" and "foo.txt":

With ".dir":
	foo.dir/
		...
	foo.txt
	foo.txt.dir/
		...
	foo.txt.txt

Without ".dir":
	foo/
		...
==>	foo.txt
==>	foo.txt/
		...
	foo.txt.txt