From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:31:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20050524213102.GB19180@vrfy.org> References: <20050524161745.GA9537@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524184612.GA23637@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20050524202846.GC25606@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Glanzmann , David Mansfield , "H. Peter Anvin" , Petr Baudis , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 23:32:26 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dagy2-0000vF-PW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 23:29:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262194AbVEXVbO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 17:31:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262199AbVEXVbN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 17:31:13 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:46222 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262194AbVEXVbG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 17:31:06 -0400 Received: by soundwarez.org (Postfix, from userid 2702) id 4B0EC3992A; Tue, 24 May 2005 23:31:02 +0200 (CEST) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:13:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > > > > btw: > > > > For the mutt tree there are a few 'empty commits' eg were the > > parent tree is the same as the current. This is because git ignores > > .cvsignore and they commited some .cvsignore files without any other > > deltas. I don't know if you want to handle this. Just a note. > > I don't like source repositories with dot-files, and I thought it was a > good idea to disallow them, but on the other hand I'd like it even less if > some CVS-weenie goes and says "I can't convert my project to git without > potentially losing information". > > So in the name of furthering humanity through allowing people to migrate > away from CVS, I'm considering making the git dot-file check be more > specific to "." ".." and ".git". After all, project-specific rules might > have their own porcelain-related ignore-files that cause dot-files to > never appear.. What about allowing to put some file inside of .git/ under revision-control too? Wouldn't it be nice to have something like an "ignore" file or other repository meta-data managed by git itself. Kay