From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:30:14 GMT
Subject: Re: git ls-files -o under .git/ prints all repository files
Message-ID: <45B0C7E6.4020509@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701182357l3a6d44fel58da50c7895fb6b4@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
>> >
>>
>> % cd .hg && hg status -A .
>> abort: path contains illegal component: .hg
>>
>> I think this is a sensible thing to do.
> 
> No, it isn't. It is not unlikely to have repo in repo
> (and some people already have them).
> Mercurial is wrong here.

For managing repos inside repos (onion repos?) I think it should
be safe to abort if we're not at top-level.

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