From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian+git@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow setting GIT_WORK_TREE to "no work tree"
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:13:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490802062313jdbd0e84xc9f36d703bb86c44@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080207051317.GA32296@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Feb 7, 2008 12:13 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:59:32PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > I was tempted to suggest GIT_WORK_TREE=/dev/null because that is
> > what "diff" uses to mark "this does not even exist", but that
> > feels dirty.
>
> It feels dirty to me, too. I would rather choose something that doesn't
> even look like a path. I think GIT_WORK_TREE=" " is too ugly, too.
Is using something like "__GIT_WORK_TREE_NOT_SET__" that terrible?
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-06 10:26 [PATCH] allow setting GIT_WORK_TREE to "no work tree" Jeff King
2008-02-06 10:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-06 11:01 ` Jeff King
2008-02-06 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07 5:13 ` Jeff King
2008-02-07 7:13 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2008-02-07 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 18:06 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-07 9:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-07 19:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 7:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-08 12:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
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