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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, 00:32 UTC
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>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> I considered it, but it's so much easier to allow things LT> later than deny them, that I preferred being anal about it.

That is not the point. GIT_DIR set to "GIT" would happily suck index file in. You are not being anal enough.

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Message 3 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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