Re: treating some directories atomically, and ignoring socket files

Alan Shutko <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jan 2015 09:57:05 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.network.unison.devel
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> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Julian Squires <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I had the suspicion that the best-integrated solution would be to
> create a new file type like `ATOMIC_DIRECTORY so that the UI could
> present it as a single entry, but it would be otherwise processed like
> a directory.

I would like to see a feature like this as well.  On Mac, we have packages which are directories that are treated as a single unit. There are many programs which use packages as a document format, and there are the same concerns as VC directories.