From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@sbox.tugraz.at>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:11:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w5zslv5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803242359230.24262@kaos.quantumfyre.co.uk> (Julian Phillips's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:01:53 +0000 (GMT)")
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> % git-add -f foo/.git/bar
>> fatal: unable to add foo/.git/bar to index
>
> Well, git won't allow .git as a element anywhere in the path, when we
> should only care about the _first_ one - and also, if you use
> --git-dir=banana then we still check for '.git' ... oops.
That's not how git-dir is supposed to used, so there is no oops.
Also it is false that we should only care about the first one. Think
submodules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 23:55 [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar Michael Gebetsroither
2008-03-25 0:01 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-25 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-03-25 0:23 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-25 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-25 0:55 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-25 1:10 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git.txt: Mention unsupported use of --git-dir/GIT_DIR Julian Phillips
2008-03-25 0:47 ` [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar Michael Gebetsroither
2008-03-25 1:42 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-26 19:22 ` Michael Gebetsroither
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