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Re: Init on push

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 8, 2008, 20:38 UTC
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Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.com> writes:
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> Le Saturday 08 November 2008 21:06:01 Jakub Narebski, vous avez écrit :
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >  - Teach "-D $there" option to "git init", which does an "mkdir -p $it &&
>> >    chdird $it" before it does its work.
>>
>> Shouldn't it be "-C $there" (like make and tar)?
>
> I agree with that. It's pretty much a standard for quite a few "command line 
> people", insofar as I always look for such an option in case I want to know 
> whether a command has the ability to chdir() to a different directory than 
> the current one :p

In this particular case, it is not "chdir() before starting" but "mkdir and then chdir() into it". Using -C would be counterproductive.

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Message 7 of 11 in “Init on push”
  1. Robin RosenbergNov 8, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2008
  3. Alexander GavrilovNov 8, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 8, 2008
  6. Francis GaliegueNov 8, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2008
  8. Francis GaliegueNov 8, 2008
  9. Francis GaliegueNov 8, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 9, 2008
  11. Francis GaliegueNov 9, 2008

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