Re: [Monotone-devel] where to put a (default) database? [Was: clone cleanup failure on Windows]

[Jack Lloyd]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:22:07PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> Hmm, odd, I seem to be in the minority :-).  I have a directory under
> ~/src/ for each project, so I have e.g. ~/src/monotone/, and then it
> contains my db in the top level, monotone.mtn, and a bunch of checkout
> directories on different branches, and build directories for those
> checkouts.

FWIW, using this scheme would worry me because a single
misplaced/poorly thought out rm -rf would wipe out both my workspaces
(usually OK, or at least noncatastrophic) and my database (potentially
very very bad - I rely heavily on disconnected commits, so losing a
database could mean potentially losing weeks of work that haven't been
sync'ed elsewhere). Having them in a . directory in ~ means the only
way something like that would occur is if I also just took out my
entire home directory, at which point my monotone databases will
probably be down to 10 or 20 on the list of things I should be pissed
about.

-Jack