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From: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de>, "Burton\,
	Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:15:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <523AF8EA.6080307@optusnet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqioxzxnjh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 18/9/13 05:20, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Lukas Fleischer <git@cryptocrack.de> writes:
>
>> why do we allow running git-checkout(1)
>> from a subdirectory?
> We may want to check the condition and forbid such a checkout.

It would probably make sense.

It might also make sense to relax the check in git bisect somewhat. 
Currently, even "git bisect help" insists that "You need to run this 
command from the toplevel of the working tree."

Regards, Ben

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-19 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-17 16:31 Bisect needing to be at repo top-level? Burton, Ross
2013-09-17 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-17 17:58   ` Lukas Fleischer
2013-09-17 19:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-09-19 13:15       ` Ben Aveling [this message]
2013-09-19 22:46         ` Ben Aveling
2013-09-19 23:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-09 18:27       ` Stefan Beller
2013-10-09 18:55         ` Jeff King
2013-10-09 19:01           ` Stefan Beller
2013-09-17 18:38   ` Burton, Ross

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