From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Global .git directory Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:59:33 +0200 Message-ID: <201004271159.34071.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Gerhard Wiesinger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 27 12:00:08 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6haG-0007ze-Ih for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:00:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753524Ab0D0J75 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:59:57 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:46051 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752973Ab0D0J74 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:59:56 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:59:54 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.254.0; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:59:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to git and as far as I saw that feature is missing: Placing .git > directory/repository on a central place for many git repositories. This > feature ensures that data directories are kept clean from metadata of git. [...] > I think this should be easy to implement on a centralized point. What problem are you trying to solve, what solution are you attempting, and why does the .git get in the way of your proposed solution? (In other words, please convince us that this is actually worth having.) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch