Slow startup?

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:57 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:


> > > it would be good to stash all global config in ~/.bzr, rather than
> > > having a bunch of files in ~.
> > 
> > I agree sticking stuff in a directory in ~ would be nice, but call it 
> > something other than .bzr, in case people want to version their home 
> > directory.  I know of many people who do that in Subversion or CVS 
> > today, and there's no reason to make it impossible when we can easily 
> > pick another directory name (.bazaar perhaps).
> 
> .bazaar is fine by me - it steps along the convergence of baz and bzr
> path too. 

I probably should, but good taste (and the FHS) dictate that dotfiles
should have a name related to the command: cf .arch-params vs tla.  Are
you using ~/.bazaar yet?

> Interesting idea though: use .bzr deliberately, with file names chosen
> so that they can be used in any tree to override defaults, and thus when
> you are versioning ~ you are also supplying defaults to other trees ;).

Interesting idea, but then you can't version your bzr configuration,
because things in .bzr are specifically exempt from being versioned.

-- 
Martin

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