What we did at UBZ

[Matthieu Moy]

John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> $archive/
>   .storage/

I hate hidden files. They're not matched by * in my shell, so some
commands like "rm foo/bar/*" or "mv foo/bar/* other/dir/",
"du -sh *" ... fail.

With tla, I saw at least one person complaining about not being able
to upload .listing files to his ISP.

> $archive/
>   =storage/
>
> Is worse than
>
> $archive/
>   +storage/

How about _storage?

It's a relatively common naming convention to put a _ at the beginning
of an identifier to mean "the user shouldn't use such identifier" (not
for filenames, but typically in C++). Forbidding _ at the beginning of
branch names sounds to me to be an acceptable limitation (you
shouldn't forbid just "+storage" or "_storage", but "+*" or "_*" so
that future archive format can use "_whatever").

I'm not aware of any command or shell interpreting _ as a
meta-character, whereas

$ tail +storage/whatever-file
tail: s: invalid suffix character in obsolescent option

-- 
Matthieu