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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com>, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: linux-2.5.4-pre1 - bitkeeper testing
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:23:00 +0100
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On February 8, 2002 12:06 am, Tom Lord wrote:
> The name has curly braces so that it sorts reasonably (i.e. away from
> ordinary source files).  It is not a dot file so that you can
> recognize at a glance when you are looking at the root of a project
> tree.

I'd pass on that to get rid of the extra 'noise'.  If for some reason I'm not 
sure - and I consider that unlikely to ever occur - I can always ls .* or 
find -name ".*arch*" if I'm really confused.

I like my directories to look clean, *especially* the source root.

-- 
Daniel
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