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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [commit 4ecbc178704] Incosistency?
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:32:32AM +0200, Unknown wrote:

> > 1. "git-add" still goes in exec-dir. It's just not the magic one we do
> >    separately (see how we no longer need to use filter-out?).
> Right. but git-add now is a link to git. Now we have one more file
> out there.

Sorry, I don't understand the significance. Is having 'git' in the
execdir causing some kind of problem?

I agree that it shouldn't be necessary for most sane setups, but sadly
there are some insane ones, and I don't think this solution should be
hurting anyone else. Am I wrong?

-Peff