Subject: Re: git ls-files -o under .git/ prints all repository files

From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:04:11 +0100

Alex Riesen wrote:
>> i would claim .git to be off limits and unrelated to the working dir
>> (file-wise).  if you want to list files there, do a find . or so.
>>  After all you wouldn't expect cd /usr && git-ls-files -o work there
>> unless you have a /.git or /usr/.git, right?
> Right, just see no practical point changing ls-file for that.

right.  .git should be forbidden in higher layers already.

> I can imagine keeping hooks under git control.
> In this case path(pwd) does contain .git component
> (as in .hg example).

doesn't work either:

% cd .git/hooks
% git add *
fatal: unable to add .git/hooks/applypatch-msg to index

cheers
  simon

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