Merge all `.doit.xxx` files in a single `.doit/` folder

[smarie]

I noticed that doit creates several files located at the project root.

The usual practice for projects doing this (e.g. pytest, pycharm, I think tox too, etc.) is to store their files in a dedicated folder.

Could we consider creating a .doit folder and putting all doit-created files in it ?

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[schettino72]

This depends on dbm module being used. For me (on linux) only one file is created. There is already #223 that mention some naming problems.

I agree that putting all files in a folder (only for DBM backends that create more then one file).

I am closing this and adding a note on #223

[smarie]

Great!

[vipranarayan14]

In Linux, I was able to achieve this by creating a folder named '.doit' inside the project root folder and configuring the dep_file path as:

# dodo.py
DOIT_CONFIG = {
    "dep_file": ".doit/.doit.db",
}