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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Felix Nairz <felix.nairz@gmail.com>
Cc: sbeller@google.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git -C has unexpected behaviour
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:54:39 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611071753200.3108@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJspf+zqj2hHjD85dvt8Y4HKPViubvTzybbTq5mJDGCh2q1UQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Felix,

On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Felix Nairz wrote:

> From what you are saying I can see that this expects as designed. It's
> confusing in the submodule case, but I get you don't want to add extra
> rules which slow down performance and mess with other people at the
> same time.

The "messing with other people" is the key point. There are most likely
other users than just me who use the fact that `git -C sub/directory/ ...`
works in a subdirectory of a checkout.

Ciao,
Johannes

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-07 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-04 14:28 git -C has unexpected behaviour Felix Nairz
2016-11-04 16:10 ` Stefan Beller
2016-11-04 16:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-11-07  7:26   ` Felix Nairz
2016-11-07 16:54     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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