Re: [Monotone-devel] .mt-attrs' location

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:59 +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
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> Hi there.
> Each time I decide to version a binary or executable file I wonder: is
> there a specific reason to put the attributes in a .mt-attrs file in the
> same directory of the referenced file instead of, as an example, storing
> it in the MT/ directory, a location that (at least to me) seem more
> 'natural' (aka "all monotone control files in the same place") and more
> 'hidden' from the user.

It's in the project root dir, regardless of which subdirs the referenced
files may be in.

> Is the only reason that this way it is versioned more easily "like any
> other file"?

It's that things in MT/ are not allowed to be versioned. So, any control
files that do need versioning are named like .mt-* , in the project
root.

Tim