From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code. Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:00:00 -0500 Message-ID: <478D9D60.9070807@talkingspider.com> References: <478D79BD.7060006@talkingspider.com> <478D8062.3090506@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Dan McGee X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 16 07:00:34 2008 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 1JF1KC-0003dP-Tz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:00:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752492AbYAPGAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:00:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751757AbYAPGAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:00:04 -0500 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:1410 "HELO relay02.pair.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751172AbYAPGAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:00:03 -0500 Received: (qmail 67257 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2008 06:00:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 16 Jan 2008 06:00:01 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 72.225.213.70 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <478D8062.3090506@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dan McGee wrote: > On 01/15/2008 09:27 PM, Mike wrote: >> How do I make the repository dir live somewhere else, the hell away from >> my code? Thanks > > mv .git > ln -s .git > > Did you try this before you sent your email? No, good idea. But it didn't work. When I git commit -a, I get "fatal: Not a git repository" (And also even if that worked, it wouldn't work on an NTFS partiton, right...)