What we did at UBZ

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>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.

+1.

In Matthew's cases, I use "rm -rf", "mv foo/bar other/dir" and "du -sh ."