From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code. Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:13 -0800 Message-ID: <86sl0xfd4e.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <478D79BD.7060006@talkingspider.com> <20080117005954.GM18022@lavos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jakub Narebski , Mike , git@vger.kernel.org To: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 17 02:35:48 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 1JFJfX-00059m-7k for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:35:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752057AbYAQBfR (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:35:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751862AbYAQBfQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:35:16 -0500 Received: from blue.stonehenge.com ([209.223.236.162]:44170 "EHLO blue.stonehenge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751761AbYAQBfP (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:35:15 -0500 Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D2B251DE251; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:35:13 -0800 (PST) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.14.17.19; tzolkin = 10 Cauac; haab = 7 Muan In-Reply-To: <20080117005954.GM18022@lavos.net> (Brian Downing's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:59:54 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Downing writes: Brian> Yes, you could use rsync or some other tool, but Git already has the Brian> tools available, so why not take advantage of them? It's very likely that rsync will be faster/better/cheaper/more-flexible than git. "Yes, you could use git, but rsync already does the job better, so why not take advantage of it?" Back at ya. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!