What we did at UBZ

[Conrad Parker]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:05:17PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:38, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:03 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > Except filenames starting with a dot are typically hidden by apache,
> > > > and that is really hard to turn off. (I still haven't figured out how
> > > > to show the .bzr directories).
> > >
> > > Is that really a show-stopper? On my server they're hidden, but still
> > > browsable as long as you know they're there. I don't see why that's
> > > really a problem?
> >
> > 'as long as you know they are there'. Thats the key - much of bzr works
> > right now without you *needing to know*. That makes it very
> > discoverable, and very easy to use. I'd hate to compromise that
> > unnecessarily.
> 
> Except that .bzr isn't discoverable via http? So perhaps it should be called 
> +bzr ?

heh :)

so (as David Clymer pointed out) in Apache the IndexIgnore directive can
be set to not ignore dotfiles.

Typically, IndexIgnore is used to hide stuff that most users don't want
to see, like revision control metadata (RCS, CVS, backup files, etc.).

Most users don't want to see revision control metadata.

I reckon it would be most neat for all revision control metadata be put
into .bzr directories. This includes specifications about archive
contents, but not the actual branches themselves, which should be easily
discoverable.

Conrad.