From: sylvain@demarque.qc.ca
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:08:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)
Message-ID: <20091012150826.p1v0gnnvokg0oggg@webmail.demarque.qc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20091012183519.GA10686@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Quoting Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:20:17PM -0400, sylvain@demarque.qc.ca wrote:
>
> I think that it sort of works, actually. It seems to do OK if you do
> something like:
>
>   $ GIT_DIR=/path/to/store/repo; export GIT_DIR
>   $ GIT_WORK_TREE=/; export GIT_WORK_TREE
>   $ git init
>   $ cd /etc/whatever
>   $ git add .
>
> So probably the bug is in detecting the location of the work tree when
> it is not explicitly given. You can use the explicit style as a
> workaround for now.
>
> -Peff

Thank you! Great idea!

export GIT_DIR=/root/.git
export GIT_WORK_TREE=/
echo "*" >> /root/.git/info/exclude

The Golden Solution of the Gods! :-D