From: Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:46:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git ls-files -o under .git/ prints all repository files
Message-ID: <1169214414.18684.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <45B0C7E6.4020509@op5.se>

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 14:30 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Alex Riesen wrote:
> > On 1/19/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> >> >
> >>
> >> % cd .hg && hg status -A .
> >> abort: path contains illegal component: .hg
> >>
> >> I think this is a sensible thing to do.
> > 
> > No, it isn't. It is not unlikely to have repo in repo
> > (and some people already have them).
> > Mercurial is wrong here.
> 
> For managing repos inside repos (onion repos?) I think it should
> be safe to abort if we're not at top-level.
> 


Why not check for /.git/ somewhere inside the current working directory
(pwd) ? That's the way mercurial does it currently, and I think that is
a sane thing to do _if_ you want to protect the user from his own
stupidity.