[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir
From: |
Nathaniel Smith |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:38:31 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.11 |
Effectively replying to a few different emails here...
-- "MTN" is not one of the options. It conflicts with the
executable name on case insensitive filesystems. The bookkeeping
dir must have a name one would not otherwise use, and obviously
if we're _shipping_ a file named that it is hard to argue that it
will not be otherwise used :-).
-- Making the bookkeeping dir a configurable option is also not on
the table. Maybe we can reconsider that after we have non-merge
conflicts:
http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/NonMergeConflicts
For now, it is a security and corruption prevention measure that
we know what the bookkeeping dir is called, and can disallow ever
having versioned files that would conflict with it. I'm even
willing to speak in the dictatorial mode here :-) Safety trumps
pretty much everything.
(Which is, incidentally, the main thing blocking 0.26 -- the
merger is still not well tested. I hear the argument that we
need to get it out the door, but... darn it, tests _are_
important. There's a principle here...)
-- Nathaniel
--
IBM manual SENG-5155-01: Power Supply and Air Moving Device Installation
Instruction for iSeries 820 and 5075.
- [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir,
Nathaniel Smith <=