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From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git's is_inside_git_dir too strict?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:12:57 +0700
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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