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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:19:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E6AD48.7090507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803231509060.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> Maybe "git --work-tree=. clone <remote>"? It currently complains about the 
> directory existing, but we could have a flag to override that. And this 
> ends up with a sort of neat arrangement where your home directory is "Not 
> a git repository", but if you go into the subdirectory that has the repo 
> files, you can do all the usual stuff. This helps to avoid the case where 
> you forget to do "git init" in a new project and accidentally check things 
> into your dotfiles.
> 
> 	-Daniel

That sounds cumbersome.

	-hpa

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-23 17:15 What I miss from Cogito H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 17:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-23 17:46   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27  2:36     ` Petr Baudis
2008-03-23 18:21   ` Luciano Rocha
2008-03-23 19:00     ` Mike Hommey
2008-03-23 19:07       ` Bruce Stephens
2008-03-23 19:07       ` Mike Hommey
2008-03-23 19:14     ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-24  0:16       ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-24  1:40         ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-03-24  2:14           ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-24  2:53             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-24  2:57             ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-03-24  3:06             ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilities Julian Phillips
2008-03-24 16:49               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-24  3:06                 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-23 18:31 ` What I miss from Cogito Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-23 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 18:58   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 18:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 19:16 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-23 19:19   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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