From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:38:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Init on push
Message-ID: <7v3ai2c5sd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200811082108.34535.fg@one2team.com>

Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.com> writes:

> 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.