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Re: Dropping core.worktree and GIT_WORK_TREE support

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Aug 25, 2008, 21:37 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:21:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The real question was about if/why that git repository _has to be_ outside
> of /usr/lib/*/Pootle/.  Is that because --work-tree, if worked properly,
> would have allowed it to be, or is that because for some external reason
> you are not allowed to have .git under /usr/lib/*/Pootle/ directory?

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the reason is that Pootle runs as the user 'pootle' which has write access to some /var/pootle or /home/pootle dir, but has no write access to /usr/lib/*/Pootle/.

> If the latter, that shows the real requirement to keep supporting it as a
> feature, and issues around it need to be fixed.  Otherwise, i.e. if it
> does not require use of --work-tree but it uses it only because it could,
> that gives us less incentive to keep --work-tree as a feature.

I think this is the latter, though as I mentioned previously - it can be still worked around by a "cd /other/path; git <command>; cd -" (speaking in shell commands), so it is not a "must", it would be just ugly IMHO.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Michael J Gruber
Message 25 of 45 in “Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore"”
  1. Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore"Karl Chen, Aug 22, 2008
  2. Eric RaibleAug 22, 2008
  3. Bert WesargAug 22, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  5. Karl ChenAug 24, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  7. Jeff KingAug 24, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  9. Jeff KingAug 24, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  11. limiting relationship of git dir and worktree (was Re: [PATCH] Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore")Jeff King, Aug 24, 2008
  12. Dropping core.worktree and GIT_WORK_TREE support (was Re: limiting relationship of git dir and worktree)Junio C Hamano, Aug 25, 2008
  13. Miklos VajnaAug 25, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2008
  15. Miklos VajnaAug 25, 2008
  16. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 25, 2008
  17. git diff/diff-index/diff-files: call setup_work_tree()Miklos Vajna, Aug 25, 2008
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 25, 2008
  19. Miklos VajnaAug 25, 2008
  20. git diff/diff-index/diff-files: call setup_work_tree()Miklos Vajna, Aug 25, 2008
  21. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 25, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2008
  23. diff*: fix worktree setupNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 28, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2008
  25. Miklos VajnaAug 25, 2008
  26. Michael J GruberAug 26, 2008
  27. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  28. Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore"Karl Chen, Aug 25, 2008
  29. Johannes SixtAug 26, 2008
  30. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008
  31. Karl ChenAug 27, 2008
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2008
  33. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateKarl Chen, Aug 28, 2008
  34. Jeff KingAug 29, 2008
  35. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2008
  36. Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.templateKarl Chen, Aug 29, 2008
  37. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2008
  38. Karl ChenAug 29, 2008
  39. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2008
  40. Karl ChenAug 29, 2008
  41. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2008
  42. Jeff KingAug 30, 2008
  43. Johannes SixtAug 29, 2008
  44. Karl ChenAug 27, 2008
  45. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2008

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