From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:19:36 GMT
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Message-ID: <47E6AD48.7090507@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803231509060.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> Maybe "git --work-tree=. clone <remote>"? It currently complains about the 
> directory existing, but we could have a flag to override that. And this 
> ends up with a sort of neat arrangement where your home directory is "Not 
> a git repository", but if you go into the subdirectory that has the repo 
> files, you can do all the usual stuff. This helps to avoid the case where 
> you forget to do "git init" in a new project and accidentally check things 
> into your dotfiles.
> 
> 	-Daniel

That sounds cumbersome.

	-hpa