What we did at UBZ

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:34:55 +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 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").

Additionally it's what's commonly used to replace '.' when porting to
Windows, since Windows still don't excatly like filenames starting with
'.'.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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