From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Voigt Subject: Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob? Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:10:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20090525111059.GE1070@macbook.lan> References: <855e4dcf0905212046o3e1d6ec6l487829a0a411dcaf@mail.gmail.com> <32541b130905212202q9aed54cn892171b7e654812f@mail.gmail.com> <855e4dcf0905212244r454a5c21w7bdbfb566a28efb8@mail.gmail.com> <4A1671E5.4030400@op5.se> <855e4dcf0905220335n367a065fidc65567119c0a5a3@mail.gmail.com> <4A16822A.2060404@viscovery.net> <855e4dcf0905220436h1b6fa632q7804c98bf09b324c@mail.gmail.com> <855e4dcf0905230121h28ef22f8n4758953e612325cf@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Daniel Barkalow , Johannes Sixt , Andreas Ericsson , Avery Pennarun , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tim Uckun X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 25 13:11:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8Y5N-0008If-GS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 13:11:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751215AbZEYLLB (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 07:11:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751147AbZEYLLA (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 07:11:00 -0400 Received: from darksea.de ([83.133.111.250]:60365 "HELO darksea.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751044AbZEYLK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 07:10:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 13428 invoked from network); 25 May 2009 13:10:52 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 May 2009 13:10:52 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <855e4dcf0905230121h28ef22f8n4758953e612325cf@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:21:09PM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote: > > I don't think any > > version control system I know of likes having your initial import be of a > > directory with other working directories for the same system as > > subdirectories. (That is, Mercurial will be fine having git working > > directories in the import, but git won't, and Mercurial wouldn't be happy > > about having Mercurial working directories as subdirectories). > > > > I now realize that. I did however did the same thing again but first > deleted all the .git directories before doing a git init. The end > result didn't change. Note that a second git init does not delete the previous database. So if you want to start from scratch you need to delete the main .git folder. As already mentioned a script recreating your setup from public sources would really be a big help to find out were git does not do what you are expecting. cheers Heiko