Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [REJECT: address@hidden (default naming convention changes)

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 15:27, Tom Lord wrote:

> 1) .rej is in the same conceptual class as .orig, .original,
>    .modified, and .reject --- they should all be handled the same way.

Ok, yeah.

> 2) .o, .a, .so, .core, and .so* do not belong in junk.
>    Those files can be very, very valuable _and_ difficult or
>    impossible to reproduce.   "junk", meanwhile, is comprised of files
>    that may be casually deleted.

Well, I can see the argument for core not being junk.  The others should
be easily reproducible in almost all cases.  Anyways, what do you
suggest?  backup?

> 3) .rej does not belong in unrecognized.  

Perhaps the best way would be a fifth class, "merge-reject" or
something.  tla could refuse to commit if any of these files exist,
perhaps overridable via an option.

Or maybe we could do it with a precommit hook.  But then it would be
sort of painful to override when necessary.

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