From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Preserve cwd in setup_git_directory()
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:04:51 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807251203001.11976@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0807250248l60c81090sd1953df24cca1421@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:
> I was pretty surprised to find that my command line switch (--work-tree)
> was being stored in the config file, which ended up causing the problem.
> Duy thinks he can fix this, which is fine, but as a matter of principle,
> I'm not keen on command line switches being magically saved for me when
> I didn't ask for this to happen.
You were initializing a repository. How on earth could you be surprised
when _important_ things like work-tree git-dir or if it is bare are stored
inside the freshly initialized repository?
> The reason for using a command line switch is because I want to override
> default behaviour on this execution, if I wanted to change the default
> behaviour, then I'd set values in the config file.
No, you would not. Because there is no config file yet.
Htrh,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 3:14 [PATCH] Preserve cwd in setup_git_directory() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2008-07-24 6:50 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-24 8:12 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 12:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-24 12:40 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 14:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-24 18:37 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-25 9:48 ` Geoff Russell
2008-07-25 10:04 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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