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From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git's is_inside_git_dir too strict?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:12:57 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0703070812y27425b07pf78fbdf14898b360@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070307155307.GC27596@spearce.org>

On 3/7/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was run in /home/pclouds/blog/data, which is the working directory
> > of data.git.
>
> Why not just symlink it?
>
>         cd /home/pclouds/blog/data
>         ln -s ../data.git .git

It's currently my workaround.

> But really, why is your Git repository for the working directory
> outside of the working directory?  Why not just move data.git to
> data/.git ?

The directory "data" is  automatically manipulated by scripts. I feel
it safer for data.git being outside of data so if I make any mistake,
data.git _might_ remain intact. You see, if I link data/.git to
data.git, my scripts' bugs might affect data.git too.

> --
> Shawn.
>


-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-07 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 15:41 git's is_inside_git_dir too strict? Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-03-06 21:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-07 12:17   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-03-07 15:53     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-07 16:12       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2007-03-09 12:00     ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-03-10  1:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-10 11:49       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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