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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory
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Adam Spiers |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory |
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:11:55 +0100 |
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Dustin Sallings (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 01:59 US/Pacific, Miles Bader wrote:
> >Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes:
> >>I have to imagine this has been discussed, but is there a good reason
> >>to keep the arch stuff in {arch} vs. something like .arch ? {arch} is
> >>a little difficult to deal with.
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >I was a bit bothered by {arch} at first, because it was unfamiliar, but
> >that didn't last long. On balance, it seems a pretty reasonable
> >choice;
> >the funny format makes it unlikely to conflict with existing
> >files/directories, and it's otherwise fairly unobtrusive (more so than
> >all UPPERCASED names). I think it's actually a _good_ thing that it's
> >user-visible, because it tells you something important: `This source
> >directory is being handled by arch.'
> >
> >The only really annoying thing is that it gets hit by recursive
> >finds/greps/whatever -- but so does every other in-directory solution
> >(CVS, .svn, etc).
>
> Well, I can ``grep string *'' and miss a dot file. In fact, this is
> a problem when importing an existing tree with a bunch of stuff at the
> top. I want to do a ``find *'' but that matches {arch}. I end up
> doing a ``find [A-z]*'' which is slightly less fun to type. Same thing
> when grepping, finding later, etc...
I'm with you on this, and I think it deserves more attention that
classifying as a "very minor issue". I have done countless
finds/greps/globs etc. over the years that have required the RCS/CVS
directories to be pruned and while it's not an enormous cost for a
once-off, it does add up.
- [Gnu-arch-users] {arch} directory, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Miles Bader, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Doran Moppert, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Samuel Tardieu, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Tom Lord, 2003/09/24