Re: [Monotone-devel] [bikeshed] once more on bookkeeping dirs...

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:31:16PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> As a quick reminder, main arguments for underscores I know:
>   -- it's an easy way to see "in your peripheral vision" that a dir is
>      under monotone
>   -- umm... VMS compatibility ;-)

windows -- visual studio doesn't like leading dots apaprently

> Main arguments for leading dots:

so that 'find *  -type f ....' doesn't hit metainfo files;
it's easier to not include with the shell than exclude.