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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Robert Watson wrote:
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> > Notice that the git.git directory is truncated. It seems the
> > intension is to truncate at the .git
> > directory level. The following patch fixes it.
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> No, the intention really is to remove the ".git" at the end. At least
> that's how I use it.
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> I like seeing my merges say
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> Merge branch 'for-linus' from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
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> even though the _real_ directory was ".../infiniband.git/", simply because
> the ".git" doesn't really add any extra information when you're already in
> git.
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> _outside_ of git, the ".git" tells you something: it tells you that you're
> entering a git archive. But when merging in git, that part is kind of
> taken for granted, isn't it?
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> This also matches what "git-receive-pack" and "git-upload-pack" does:
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> ...
> /* chdir to the directory. If that fails, try appending ".git" */
> if (chdir(dir) < 0) {
> if (chdir(mkpath("%s.git", dir)) < 0)
> die("unable to cd to %s", dir);
> }
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> /* If we have a ".git" directory, chdir to it */
> chdir(".git");
> ...
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> Note how it _both_ will append ".git" to the directory name (if it can't
> find one without ".git" _and_ will try to chdir to a ".git" directory
> _within_ the directory name.
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> So if you use the native pack ssh interfaces, you really can say
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> git pull master.kernel.org:.../infiniband
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> because the tools (well, the "native pack" ones - not the http/rsync/scp
> ones) will automatically DTRT.
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> Linus
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