From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:47:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-daemon extra paranoia
Message-ID: <7v64ruo31i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510181517280.3369@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> 	git pull git://host/home/linux-2.6
>
> will on the remote end do:
>
> 	chdir("/home/linux-2.6")	// fails with ENOENT
> 	chdir("/home/linux-2.6.git")	// works
> 	chdir(".git")			// works
>
> resulting in it ending up in /home/linux-2.6.git/.git, which is exactly 
> correct, and where it wants to be.
>
> I personally find it a nice bit of usability enhancement. You can name 
> your git repositories with a ".git" suffix (which can help all kinds of 
> automated tasks - like autopacking), but you don't force your users to 
> care.

Wouldn't having /home/linux-2.6/.git/ repository with
/home/linux-2.6/ working tree be good enough for that?  Instead
of doing "find / -type d -name '*.git'" you could do "find /
-type d -name .git" for automated tasks.