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Re: WC format bump imminent - renaming pristines to <SHA1>.pristine

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:29:53 +0200

On 05/19/2011 11:34 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:26 +0200, Julian Foad wrote:
>> A WC format bump is imminent, in order to rename the pristine text files
>> from '<SHA1>' to '<SHA1>.pristine', as discussed in the thread 'Add
>> ".svn-base" suffix to the pristine files in 1.7' started by Konstantin
>> Kolinko on 2011-05-18,
>> <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-05/0583.shtml>.
>
> Oh, it looks like the choice of name
>
> '<SHA1>.pristine'
>
> was not discussed in that thread. Two or three of us thought that
> seemed like a sensible choice of name. The other reasonable option is
> to keep the old extension so that the new names would be
>
> '<SHA1>.svn-base'
>
> The advantage would be that if anyone has already set up their tools to
> filter out '*.svn-base' they wouldn't have to change that configuration.

+1 for <SHA1>.svn-base

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2011-05-19 17:30:27 CEST

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