What we did at UBZ

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:53, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 15 Nov 2005, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> > 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'd be happy with that.
>
> I think darcs allows you to have either .darcs or _darcs in the working
> directory; do people want that too.

I still think it should be .foo, it's hidden for a reason, you don't need or 
want to be playing with it.

cheers

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