Should hidden files and directories be treated differently by the home plug

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 06/07/16 17:41, Neil McPhail wrote:
> On 06/07/16 18:13, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>> In principle I think the way to do this is to have the snap declare some
>> specific .files that it wants to see, as parameters on the interface.
>> This would trigger a one-time review, but assuming the request is sane,
>> those would then be granted.
>>
>> The silversearcher example, though, is more interesting because it's
>> explicitly wanting to search dotfiles that belong to other apps.
>>
>> Mark
>>
> If a solution could be found for silversearcher, it may become a class
> solution for useful snaps of "git" and other build tools. I'm sure we
> need a more generic solution for dotfiles than exclusion+whitelisting.

Why would a git snap need to see dotfiles other than its own?

Code trees are not in .foo, they are in places like src/foo/ and
dotfiles inside those would of course be readable using the home interface.

Mark