Re: git ls-files -o under .git/ prints all repository files

From

Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>

Date

Jan 19, 2007, 09:04 UTC

Message-ID

<45B0898B.5040804@fs.ei.tum.de>

In-Reply-To

<81b0412b0701190032w686c9403uacd9b3e1e44be307@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:

>> i would claim .git to be off limits and unrelated to the working dir
>> (file-wise).  if you want to list files there, do a find . or so.
>>  After all you wouldn't expect cd /usr && git-ls-files -o work there
>> unless you have a /.git or /usr/.git, right?
> Right, just see no practical point changing ls-file for that.

right.  .git should be forbidden in higher layers already.

> I can imagine keeping hooks under git control.
> In this case path(pwd) does contain .git component
> (as in .hg example).

doesn't work either:

cheers
  simon

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