[Unison-hackers] treating some directories atomically, and ignoring socket files

[Alan Shutko]

> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Julian Squires <julian at cipht.net> 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.