[MERGE][#124325] Rename the .bzr.backup dir to .backup.bzr
John Arbash Meinel
john at arbash-meinel.com
Sat Mar 15 14:11:42 GMT 2008
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Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Ian Clatworthy
> <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> Discussing this with John further, I agree it ought to be named
>> backup.bzr instead of .backup.bzr. Will tweak and merge.
>
> I'm fine with this, I just thought that for the admins that want to
> keep the backup around, having it visible is a bit of a pain.
> I suppose they can just mass rename it afterwards.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Martin
The problem is that '.backup.bzr' would still be added if you did a
plain 'bzr add' and would show up if you do 'bzr status'. So it is cruft
that is lying around in your working tree. It is far better to have
*visible* cruft in 'backup.bzr' rather than to have invisible cruft as
'.backup.bzr'.
If you didn't have a working tree, then there is more of a reason to
leave it hidden, but not enough (IMO) to actually leave it in.
I'm also CCing Jonathan because LP will need to be updated to allow
'backup.bzr' to exist so that you can upgrade your launchpad branches.
It is probably trivial, but it should hopefully happen quickly.
John
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