unhide git_commit_info.ini

[juliantaylor]

installing hidden files in system paths is bad style
closes #1484

[fperez]

This file is only for internal use and is not a python file, so I don't really see the need to have it visible. 'Bad style' is sometimes a matter of preference, and I don't like to see our code directories cluttered, esp. the main IPython one. So I'm -1 on merging this.

[juliantaylor]

how about moving it to a different directory?

[minrk]

We put everything that code actually needs in the IPython source dir, because Python has no reliable answer for finding files that end up elsewhere.

FWIW, I'm +1 on not having hidden files in the source tree, and I think we should either unhide it (and possibly move it adjacent to utils/sysinfo, where it is used), or write the info into the Python file itself, as done in numpy.

[fperez]

In that case, let's find a solution that doesn't require another file or let's put it next to utils/sysinfo. I haven't looked at what numpy is doing these days, but if that's simple enough to copy, I'd be fine with it.

[minrk]

numpy is doing pretty much the exact same thing we are, but they write a Python file instead of hidden ini.

their code

[fperez]

I'm going to close this and we'll go with #1538 instead, which I think is a cleaner solution in the long run. Let us know if you see anything missing there for your purposes, @juliantaylor.