What we did at UBZ

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:34, 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.

I realise we've decided that .bzr should become _,+=HERE_BE_DRAGONS=+,_, but I 
thought I'd just mention another reason why I like . files.

They're not matched by * in my shell.

Which means:

# grep -R "foo" *

does what you want. ie. it doesn't grep your revision history.

cheers

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