What we did at UBZ

[John A Meinel]

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
>> $archive/
>>   .storage/
> 
> I hate hidden files. They're not matched by * in my shell, so some
> commands like "rm foo/bar/*" or "mv foo/bar/* other/dir/",
> "du -sh *" ... fail.
> 
> With tla, I saw at least one person complaining about not being able
> to upload .listing files to his ISP.
> 
>> $archive/
>>   =storage/
>>
>> Is worse than
>>
>> $archive/
>>   +storage/
> 
> How about _storage?

Actually, that's also what I was thinking of as an alternative.

John
=:->

> 
> It's a relatively common naming convention to put a _ at the beginning
> of an identifier to mean "the user shouldn't use such identifier" (not
> for filenames, but typically in C++). Forbidding _ at the beginning of
> branch names sounds to me to be an acceptable limitation (you
> shouldn't forbid just "+storage" or "_storage", but "+*" or "_*" so
> that future archive format can use "_whatever").
> 
> I'm not aware of any command or shell interpreting _ as a
> meta-character, whereas
> 
> $ tail +storage/whatever-file
> tail: s: invalid suffix character in obsolescent option
> 


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