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

> 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

I always like to name temp files and temp backups *.bob... since it is my name and easy to type, find and remember... so I vote for....

<SHA1>.svn-base

(not sure my vote counts, I'm just an interested bystander not a committer.)

*.BOb
Received on 2011-05-19 17:33:23 CEST