Re: tool and worktree

From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 9, 2009, 17:49 UTC
Message-ID: <1234201781-5537-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090209161907.GA953@neumann>

On Sunday 08 February 2009 20:25, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I track /etc using a config
>> 
>> [core]
>> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
>> 	filemode = true
>> 	bare = false
>> 	worktree = /etc
>> 	logAllRefUpdates = true
>> 	excludesfile =
>> 
>> But that can not be handled by tools,
>> 
>> git gui : cannot use funny .git directory .
> 
> If someone sends patches for git-gui, maybe.  This use case of
> different repository and worktree isn't very common for git-gui
> so it doesn't support it.

I came across the same problem. I also sent a tentative patchset to solve the problem about 12 hours ago:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/109035

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta