From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:44:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Make C-level operable from subdirectories
Message-ID: <20051126184429.GH16995@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <7voe477n4i.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 01:51:41AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>
> >> I once advocated for an environment to name the top of working
> >> tree directory --- it might make sense to resurrect that one.
> >
> > Please don't. 
> >
> > We should just make the scripts do it automatically instead.
> 
> Here comes an 8-patch series.

Should the documentation get an update to mention that using GIT_DIR to
create a totally out-of-tree setup is supported, but not recommended?

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Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere