From: Mike <fromlists@talkingspider.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:24:55 GMT
Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code.
Message-ID: <478D8717.50100@talkingspider.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0801152305050.13593@iabervon.org>


Daniel Barkalow wrote:
 > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mike wrote:
 >
 >
 > Generate your tarballs with "git archive", which will also make sure 
that
 > you don't accidentally include anything else that's not committed.
 > Likewise for sending to the live site, probably.

Thanks please see my response to David about why this isn't good.

 >
 > You'll probably want to keep your history, which is what's in .git, when
 > you migrate to a different server; that's kind of the point of using
 > version control...

The git repositories should be on the development server, but should 
*never* be on the live server.  Anywhere, ever.

 > export GIT_DIR=/somewhere-else.git
 >
 > Note that this only really works if you've only got one repository;
 > there's no good way to have the repository information outside of the
 > working directory and still have which repository you're using depend on
 > which directory you're working in.
 >

Thanks. Damn. We do have several repositories, (several sites).  I'll 
try Dan's soft link suggestion.

thanks
m