From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: deepwinter Subject: concerns about git Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19959918.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 13 20:18:25 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 1KpRvT-0005VX-Rp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:13:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757293AbYJMSMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758672AbYJMSMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:12:30 -0400 Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:37460 "EHLO kuber.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758612AbYJMSM3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:12:29 -0400 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KpRu7-00012w-CI for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:12:27 -0700 X-Nabble-From: deepwinter@winterroot.net Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: i've been looking into using git for some version control and it looks great.. except for 1 thing that really disturbs me. why is the .git repository stored within the working copy? this is seems like a recipe for accidental deletion. if you are an individual using version control lets say for just your own work, there is a lot of security that is gained from at least having your repository within a different directory, or better on a different partition. this ensures that accidental deletions or hard drive crashes are less likely to result in loosing the ENTIRE project! of course, accidentally deleting your working copy is stupid, but it does happen. git seems to offer no protection against this kind of mistake for the individual coder.. or is there some way to have git put the actual repository files in a different directory? (can't find info on that) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/concerns-about-git-tp19959918p19959918.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.