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Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 25, 2005, 01:11 UTC
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<7v3bscrtwx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241748520.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> Heh. There's a difference between being anal, and allowing people to shoot LT> themselves in the foot.

How about we do something like this:
 (1) we keep hardcoded .git refusing as you did;
 (2) we forbid GIT_DIR to be set to anything other than what
     ends with "/.git", unless it is literally ".git";
Previous: Linus TorvaldsNext: Petr Baudis
Message 9 of 11 in “Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files”
  1. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  4. Allow dot files in ls-files as well.Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  7. Allow dot files in ls-files as well (take #2).Junio C Hamano, May 25, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 25, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2005
  10. Petr BaudisMay 26, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2005

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