[darcs-users] boringfile and binary problem

[zooko at zooko.com]

> Yes, I ran into the problem a couple of days ago, when using  
> Dreamweaver (not my choice!) to update web pages based on a template.  
> The only way I got around it was moving _darcs out of the root  
> directory, updating, and then moving it back, and doing a 'darcs  
> repair' to fix the pristine tree when it got mangled. 

If _darcs had been named ".darcs", would Dreamweaver have skipped it by
default?

> Next time I'll  
> stick the site one level down...

That's a good technique.  I use it all the time, both for this reason and so
that I can safely merge two independent darcs repos in the future.

--Z