Re: [Monotone-devel] Root directory name in inventory

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> While I'm generally sympathetic to the idea of presenting the root
> directory in some more user-friendly name, it seems a bit odd to have
> an ad hoc user-friendly of writing it in a non-user-friendly
> interface.  Especially since it will still need special-case handling
> by consumers of the API (no other directory name starts with ".", for

Moreover, "." normally means the current working directory, which isn't 
the same in most cases. Please, *if* there really needs to be a 
user-friendly root directory name, give it another name.

> Does anyone want to defend this, or should we just axe it?

Axe it!

Regards

Markus