1070128 - Rename data/templates to data/.template_cache

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The docs contain a warning not to edit the templates in data/templates instead of templates/ by mistake. Also, every time I grep a Bugzilla directory without qualifiers, I get double-hits - one from template/ and one from data/template, which is useless noise.

We could solve both of these problems by renaming data/templates to data/.template_cache . The leading "." would hide it from grep and randomly-browsing users, and calling it "template_cache" would make it clear that it's a temporary directory and can be safely deleted if necessary.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

glob: can you think of any reason why this would be a bad idea?

Gerv

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

my version of grep (gnu 2.14) searches data/.template by default, so this change wouldn't hide it from grep.
hrm, i'm not convinced that renaming the directories is the right way to address your grep issue.

i suggest you use a grep alternative such as ack (http://betterthangrep.com/) and configure it to ignore the data/templates directory:

~/.ackrc:
--ignore-dir=data/template
--ignore-dir=data/assets


renaming the directory to template_cache has some merit, however i don't think the issue occurs often enough any more for us to take the hit here.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I do use ack, actually. I've added those to my .ackrc.

Gerv