Re: but what color for the bikeshed's _lean-to_? (was Re: [Monotone-devel] renaming monotone executable (again))

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 09:46, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> So the possibilities that come to my mind are:
>   -- Use .mtn for the bookkeeping dir, and keep .monotone as the
>      config dir.  This seems sort of weird, though I guess it's what
>      both bzr-ng and svn do.  I also share Matt's mild preference for
>      not using a hidden dir, though I welcome more bikesheds full of
>      opinions on this matter as well.  (Several people have already
>      suggested using a dotfile upthread, and I observe that all of
>      svn, git, hg, bzr have gone with hidden dirs.)
>   -- Use _MTN or _mtn for the bookkeeping dir.  This remains visible,
>      while avoiding name conflicts with mtn itself.  Precedence:
>      _darcs, and svn with SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK (see
>      http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#vs-asp-net).

Another possibility could be to use 'mtn.d' for the bookkeeping directory.

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