From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 01:11:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files
Message-ID: <7v3bscrtwx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <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";