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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc 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 13:13:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buozkpb8qvn.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8vwv927a.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>> Instead of creating the repository at $GIT_DIR, --real-git-dir will
>> tell git to put the repository there, then make $GIT_DIR a .git file
>> that points to --real-git-dir.
>
> Just like you, I am also bad at naming things, so I cannot offhand suggest
> a better name, even though I _know_ --real-git-dir sounds horrible.

--separate-git-dir  ?

[Terms like "separate source dir" and "separate build dir" seems to be
common when talking about build systems, and it seems a somewhat
similar situation -- separation of usually co-located information.]

-miles

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-04  4:13 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 [this message]
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

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