Re: Intricacies of submodules

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2008, 01:48 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320804171848v1f48735dt9930dc023bdb0946@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804171530460.2879@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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>  On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote:
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>  > Are you saying that a *remote* in-tree .gitconfig would be capable of
>  > affecting *local* system before the end of the clone operation?
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>  No. But what do you do after a "git clone".
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>  Do you, for example, do something like "git log -p" to actually see the
>  commits?
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>  And what happens if that runs an external diff viewer script that just
>  happens to do a "rm -rf $HOME"?
>

Good point. This is the best example (maybe the only one till now) i have seen that demostrates the bad thing of in-tree .gitconfig. So i vote for the limited in-tree .gitconfig point of Linus.

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Ping Yin