From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:37:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files
Message-ID: <20050526083745.GD22262@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bscrtwx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:11:42AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...
> >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> LT> Heh. There's a difference between being anal, and allowing people to shoot 
> LT> themselves in the foot.
> 
> How about we do something like this:
> 
>  (1) we keep hardcoded .git refusing as you did;
>  (2) we forbid GIT_DIR to be set to anything other than what
>      ends with "/.git", unless it is literally ".git";

That doesn't make any sense. When I'm working on kernel.org, why
would you prohibit me to set GIT_DIR to /pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git ?

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