Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 01:17 US/Pacific, Neil Stevens wrote:

> On the other hand, if you mistreat your early adopters by breaking
> everything of theirs, that will just discourage user of the software.

	I agree, and believe that it should be possible to move forward 
without mistreating anyone.

	I believe that all of the internal control files of the system 
({arch}, configs) should be hidden from default visibility and globbing 
(.arch-params, .arch-ids).

	If users need arch to remind them that directories are handled by 
arch, hooks should be capable of supporting this for those users.  For 
example (I've not used hooks, so this may be wrong):

if [ $1 = "init-tree" ]
then
        touch $ARCH_TREE_ROOT/"HandledByArch(tm)"
        tla add $ARCH_TREE_ROOT/"HandledByArch(tm)"
fi

	Those of us who want the revision control system to stay out of our 
way when we're not using it might not do such a thing.

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