7 Apr
2011
7 Apr
'11
5:27 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 08:14, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Does anyone have a stronger argument than intuition for changing or retaining the current behavior?
I like the existing way, actually. It fits with two nice ways of looking at things: - A *nix hidden file is one with no name, after removing all extensions. - A file like .gitignore is a file of type "gitignore" that nobody bothered to name. Conceptually, it would make sense to have multiple *.gitignore files, and the one without a stem is just the default name. (And that would allow putting, say, all the auto-generated ones in one file, and a manually-maintained list in another.) ~ Scott