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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS
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Damien Elmes |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Sep 2003 02:16:21 +1000 |
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Mirian Crzig Lennox <address@hidden> writes:
> Why "gah?" The alternative is to clutter the user's source tree with
> magical names like "{arch}", ",,what-changed.foo" and ++log.bar",
> requiring added complexity to tell them apart from actual source.
> Directories are the canonical way to partition namespace in Unix, so
> we may as well use them. Let the kernel do our work for us rather
> than requiring every utility know how to recognise junk paths from
> source.
>
> This is also the rationale behind the common practice of keeping build
> directories separate from one's source trees.
The ,,what-changed stuff no longer appears by default in recent tla
releases. The log filename could probably be shortened a bit so it
doesn't mess up the directory listing wrapping, but it's not a huge
problem. {arch} is a simple grep -v away if it's a bother.
I remember being quite turned off by all the funnily named files when
I first started arch. But really I couldn't care anymore - I know for
one that having to do something like "cd project/actual-tree" where
project/ contained {arch} etc would be far more of a pain than having
the files sitting inside the same tree. Maybe there's some scope for
improvements here, but it's certainly not the priority I once
considered it. It can be convenient to have those "arch droppings" in
easy view, and the ,, files are easy to remove.
A tool like "cvs export" would probably a good thing though.
Cheers,
--
Damien Elmes
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] DARCS, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] DARCS, Zack Brown, 2003/09/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Miles Bader, 2003/09/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] DARCS, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2003/09/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Miles Bader, 2003/09/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] DARCS, Zack Brown, 2003/09/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Miles Bader, 2003/09/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/07
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Miles Bader, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS,
Damien Elmes <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Tom Lord, 2003/09/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Miles Bader, 2003/09/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: DARCS, Tom Lord, 2003/09/08