Re: Protected Stow Directory

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 06:56:51AM -0400, =E9=A1=94=E7=84=A1=E3=81=97 wro=
te:
>Hello and thank you for developing Stow.

You're welcome, and very sorry for the slow reply.  These days I'm
processing my Stow backlog in batches every 6-12 months.  You can
blame Donald Knuth for giving me the idea ;-)

>I just began using version
>2.2.2 with Perl v5.24.1 and noticed the stow directory name is not
>allowed to begin with a period (e.g. ".stow" as opposed to "stow").
>Stow gives an error that reads "WARNING: skipping protected directory
>." and immediately aborts operation.  Is this intended behavior?  If
>so, what is the rationale?  I was unable to find any mention of
>"protected" directories in the man/info pages.

Yes, this is intended, and even documented :-)

http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Multiple-Stow-Directori=
es.html#Multiple-Stow-Directories