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To: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
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"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought about symlinks. However find will follow symlinks and
> traverse .git directories again. My goal is to prevent looking into
> .git directories

I do not think the user (i.e. the developer working in his git
tree or git forest that hosts subprojects) should have to bend
and move .git directories away from the directory structure he
works in just to please the tool (i.e. find).  In this case the
tool has an easy way to bend itself to match what the user
wants, which is:

	find ... \( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o ...