From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>,
Mike <fromlists@talkingspider.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code.
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:40:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4s1sm7y.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801161244390.17650@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:45:52 +0000 (GMT)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> Yes, so you can use
>>
>> $ git --work-tree . --git-dir /some/other/place <some-command>
>>
>> But it's far from the user-friendlyness of a real lightweight checkout:
>> you need to provide the --work-tree and --git-dir options each time you
>> run git. And making an alias or using the environment variables are not
>> really an option if you have more than one repository or working tree to
>> deal with.
>
> Well, the OP said he did not want _any_ file in the worktree. So there's
> no way around specifying by hand everytime where the git directory should
> be.
Export GIT_DIR and GIT_WORKTREE and you are free to go, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 3:27 I don't want the .git directory next to my code Mike
2008-01-16 3:50 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-01-16 4:07 ` Mike
2008-01-16 4:24 ` David Symonds
2008-01-16 4:29 ` Mike
2008-01-16 4:36 ` Sean
2008-01-16 17:31 ` Mike
2008-01-16 5:27 ` Neil Macneale
2008-01-16 17:23 ` Mike
2008-01-16 17:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-17 5:42 ` Mike
2008-01-17 6:38 ` Kris Shannon
2008-01-17 10:34 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-01-17 15:17 ` Jeff King
2008-01-17 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-17 17:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-17 18:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 19:12 ` Mike
2008-01-17 19:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 20:00 ` Mike
2008-01-17 20:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 20:49 ` Mike
2008-01-17 20:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 21:00 ` Mike
2008-01-17 21:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-18 7:52 ` David Symonds
2008-01-22 10:27 ` Russ Dill
2008-01-17 21:05 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-01-18 8:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-01-16 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 2:00 ` Ping Yin
2008-01-17 2:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 3:56 ` Dan McGee
2008-01-16 6:00 ` Mike
2008-01-16 6:07 ` Mike Krier
2008-01-16 6:09 ` Mike
2008-01-16 4:03 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-01-16 4:06 ` David Symonds
2008-01-16 4:18 ` Mike
2008-01-16 4:44 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-16 4:55 ` Luke Lu
2008-01-16 17:23 ` Mike
2008-01-17 1:42 ` Sam Vilain
2008-01-16 4:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-16 4:24 ` Mike
2008-01-16 10:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:21 ` Bert Wesarg
2008-01-16 22:33 ` Wayne Davison
2008-01-16 9:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-01-16 10:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 11:41 ` Bill Lear
2008-01-16 12:25 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-01-16 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-16 17:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 11:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-01-16 12:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-17 0:59 ` Brian Downing
2008-01-17 1:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-01-17 2:59 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-01-17 5:44 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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