Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code.

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Jan 16, 2008 10:27 AM, Mike <fromlists@talkingspider.com> wrote:
>
> I'm learning git and I'm really annoyed that the .git directory lives in
> the same directory as my code.  I don't want it there for three reasons:
>
> 1. My code lives on a development web server docroot, and I don't want
> the .git repository to end up getting published to the live site by
> accident. (I would imagine this would be a common need.)
>
> 2. If I tar/gz my code and deliver it to a client, I don't want the .git
> dir slipping into the tarball, allowing my client to be able to peruse
> the history of what we did and when.
>
> 3. The .git respository will get big, especially with binary files in
> it, and I want it someplace with a lot of disk space. And I don't want
> it to get tarred up when we migrate the site to a different server. (And
> tar isn't aware of hard links is it? wonderful.)
>
> How do I make the repository dir live somewhere else, the hell away from
> my code? Thanks

Setup GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR env variables or use --git-dir and
--work-tree together. See "man git" for more detail.
-- 
Duy