From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:57:04 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoaahb8jb3.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4o7j8lxg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> You are only saying you want to move it, not saying why you want to move
> it.
>
> That is not an explanation _why_ it is useful to be able to do so.
Hmm, one scenario would be when you want to "manage" a work tree using a
relatively-passive tool that might barf over the contents (large, weird,
files...) of a .git dir. E.g., eclipse or something (well I guess
eclipse might actually have direct git support these days, but you get
the idea).
-Miles
--
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 12:43 [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-03-03 21:13 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-03 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 7:41 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-04 12:26 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 18:09 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-04 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 4:19 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04 4:33 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 4:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 6:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 6:39 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 6:57 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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