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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GIT_ONE_FILESYSTEM inclusion?
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 17:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Oh, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean "instead of". A command-line option
>> _in_addition_ to the environment variable. For one-off uses.
>
> I may have been the one who mentioned "-x to git potty" as a possibility,
> but I agree with Lars---I think it would be too cumbersome to use in
> practice.
>
> When would you invoke this feature as "one-off"?
>

Maybe when I want to make sure git status does not go all over an
NFS mounted submodule.

But frankly, I think it will be the most obscure feature of Git ever,
with a command-line option or without. I just wanted to suggest
(and actually, just should have, stupid me) to keep it in line with
other similar configurations, which are present in all three forms
(work tree comes to mind... Come to think of it, only the work tree).