What we did at UBZ

[Alexander Belchenko]

Erik Bågfors пишет:
>>FWIW, I like _bzr.  It's enough to say "I'm special!";
>>it's going overboard to make it hidden.
> 
> 
> This seams to be a common question over at the darcs mailinglist.
> 
> Some people like that it's named _darcs, some people want it to be
> renamed .darcs (I think it can be today?).  Some people do not want to
> see it because it's something that you should never mess around with
> while others don't like that you don't show that this directory is
> handled by darcs.
> 
> I can understand both ways.  Personally I prefer the .bzr thing.  I
> don't want to have that in the way.  But it gets really strange when
> you "bzr push" to a new repo (which is another thread... :) ) and you
> get no working directory.   Then it looks like it just created a dir
> and nothing in it.

I'm also very happy with '.bzr'.

May I insert my 2 pence? Another variant for naming can be: !bzr, name
starting with exlamation mark. It's not simply "I'm special directory"
declaration, it's definitely "I'm SPECIAL!!!" :-)

Usage of `!` have very interesting effect: ascii code of `!` is 33,
right after space, so directory with first `!` always be listed first,
when sorted by alphabet. Code of `.` (dot) is 46, but underscore `_`
have code 95 -- after numbers and uppercase letters [A-Z]. Latter fact
is one reason why I think that `_` is bad choice. It may listed inside
other working directory and may be hard to make distinction.

Windows Explorer accept name starting with `!`, and on Linux too as I
can see. So we easily avoid this weird dot problem.

BTW, CVS make CVS directory and mark it as hidden on Windows. I think
.bzr directory also should be marked as hidden for Windows. This helps
to prevent accidentaly renaming by unexperienced users on Windows, as
John say:

"...if you ever accidentally rename it to something else, you can't
rename it back with explorer. (I know cygwin works fine, and I believe
cmd.exe will let you do it too)"


Alexander