Re: [Monotone-devel] Name of the MT directory

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:25:30AM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Is there a hook or configuration option to specify the name of the MT
> directory? I'd prefer to name it '.mt'.

There is no such option.  Adding one would be somewhat questionable;
the problem is that monotone knows the name of its book keeping dir,
and that it is impossible to commit files inside it.  (This is pretty
important; imagine the havoc if someone committed a file named
"MT/revision"...)  But monotone can't know every possible book keeping
dir users might prefer, so normal monotone lets people name things
".mt", and your monotone would let people name things "MT"; by
changing yours locally, you're opening yourself up to the possibility
of creating histories that other users cannot read, or of other users
creating histories that you cannot read.

-- Nathaniel

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