From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vhdgstb7x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 25 02:21:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dajdy-0002xU-Cz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 02:21:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262179AbVEYAWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 20:22:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262180AbVEYAWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 20:22:35 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63407 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262179AbVEYAWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 20:22:31 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j4P0MQjA005033 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 24 May 2005 17:22:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4P0MPff026851; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:22:26 -0700 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vhdgstb7x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.40__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.109 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Linus, I think this is wrong. GIT_DIR could be something other > than ".git". I considered it, but it's so much easier to allow things later than deny them, that I preferred being anal about it. Linus