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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git's is_inside_git_dir too strict?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:53:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070307155307.GC27596@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0703070417n5d3fb168jc7efd4642ad38c92@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >Well, there is a real problem with "This operation must be run in a work
> >tree". What operation is that? We tried to make it hard to overwrite
> >things in $GIT_DIR by running Git operations meant for the working tree,
> >and it seems like you are running one of them.
> 
> From this command:
> 
> git --git-dir=/home/pclouds/blog/data.git ls-files --others --modified
> 2007-03-07T18_52_41.txt
> 
> It was run in /home/pclouds/blog/data, which is the working directory
> of data.git.

Why not just symlink it?

	cd /home/pclouds/blog/data
	ln -s ../data.git .git

But really, why is your Git repository for the working directory
outside of the working directory?  Why not just move data.git to
data/.git ?

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 15:41 git's is_inside_git_dir too strict? Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-03-06 21:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-07 12:17   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-03-07 15:53     ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-03-07 16:12       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-03-09 12:00     ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-03-10  1:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-10 11:49       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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