From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR with git clone
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:23:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4n4xulrm.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKJdRamFDDWRZDHBCe7GrXg0OWhLfBPq_ofsvowaW9d8VOGTMA@mail.gmail.com> (Cosmin Apreutesei's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:59:16 +0200")
Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@gmail.com> writes:
> I would like to be able to tell my users that they can simply do:
>
> git clone --git-dir=_/git/module1/.git module1-url
> git clone --git-dir=_/git/module2/.git module2-url
>
> which will overlay the files from both modules into the current
> directory, which from git's perspective is the work-tree for both
> modules.
Would there be a sensible semantics in the resulting working tree?
Which repository would a new file in such a combined working tree
belong to?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-20 15:59 GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR with git clone Cosmin Apreutesei
2014-01-21 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-21 21:37 ` Cosmin Apreutesei
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2011-03-26 12:58 Kacper Kornet
2011-03-26 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-26 23:37 ` Kacper Kornet
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