[Monotone-devel] Re: [bikeshed] envelope please

[Bruce Stephens]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

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>   -- maybe change the configuration dir from ~/.monotone to ~/.mtn.
>      No-one seemed to much care for this idea, which seemed a little
>      weird to me (I dunno, would you expect ls to find its
>      configuration in ~/.list?), but whatever, this isn't really
>      urgent anyway so I'm happy to ignore it for now.

I can't think of any reason why this directory needs to be a short
name.  If the executable's changing name, then I can see it might be
better to change it.

It annoys me sometimes looking through my home directory and seeing
hundreds of obscurely named . files and directories (wondering which
might be safe to remove), but from that point of view .mtn and
.monotone are about equal: .mtn would match the executable name, and
it won't be a secret that mtn is short for "monotone" (I guess the
packages will still be named monotone).

Using ~/.mtn for the config dir and _mtn for the top of root workspace
dir strikes me as potentially confusing, but I don't really know---I
don't keep my home directory in a VCS.  I think I like _MTN better.
_MONOTONE or something's probably too long (since we are going to see
that dir).