From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:13:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Using GIT to store /etc (Or: How to make GIT store all file permission bits)
Message-ID: <200612111313.34292.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <457D3573.2010001@op5.se>

On Monday 11 December 2006 11:39, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Import/export scripts literally require wrapping every single GIT 
> > command with a script that changes directory a few times, reads from a 
> > different checked-out tree, and permutes some extended-attribute data 
> > slightly before storing it in the underlying GIT tree.  Even without 
> > adding any new functionality whatsoever that doubles the amount of code 
> > just for finding your repository and checking command-line arguments, 
> > and that's a crazy trade-off to make in any situation.
> > 
> 
> GIT_DIR=/some/where/else/.git git log -p

Doing this everytime you want to run a git command *is* a lot of time
wasted for typing.

The .gitlink proposal would come in handy here: you have a simple
file instead of .git/, which links to the real repository.