From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749AFC433DF for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B7D207DE for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729092AbgHTNBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:01:51 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:36208 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728250AbgHTNBg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:01:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 6755 invoked by uid 109); 20 Aug 2020 13:01:26 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:01:26 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 15157 invoked by uid 111); 20 Aug 2020 13:01:26 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:01:26 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:01:25 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Lukas Straub Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Randall S. Becker" , 'git' , 'Elijah Newren' , 'Brandon Williams' , 'Johannes Schindelin' Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories Message-ID: <20200820130125.GB2522289@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <04aa01d67659$2dc217b0$89464710$@nexbridge.com> <20200819201736.GA2511157@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200819203825.GA2511902@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200820133445.2bd162a3@luklap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200820133445.2bd162a3@luklap> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:34:45PM +0200, Lukas Straub wrote: > Yes, there are many workarounds and they work well in the CI usecase. However, > for the arbitrary files usecase there is no good workaround. I currently use > a script which iterates over the tree and renames .git -> dotgit before running > any git command and back again afterwards, but it is slow and brittle. I toyed > with the idea of writing a FUSE filesystem to do the renaming, but it is > needlessly complex and hurts performance. > > Really, this problem should be solved in git itself. It is unclear to me why need to hold many sub-repositories within the parent one, nor what Git operations you expect to perform over them. And what disadvantages your script solution has. Perhaps you can give a more concrete use-case (but before you spend a lot of time doing so, I'll warn you that I find it pretty unlikely that it will cross the bar necessary to counter the downsides we've discussed so far). -Peff