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Re: [RFC] separate .git from working directory

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 11, 2006, 22:22 UTC
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"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> I thought about symlinks. However find will follow symlinks and
> traverse .git directories again. My goal is to prevent looking into
> .git directories

I do not think the user (i.e. the developer working in his git tree or git forest that hosts subprojects) should have to bend and move .git directories away from the directory structure he works in just to please the tool (i.e. find). In this case the tool has an easy way to bend itself to match what the user wants, which is:

	find ... \( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o ...
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  1. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  2. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2006
  3. SeanOct 11, 2006
  4. SeanOct 11, 2006
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  6. Liu YubaoOct 12, 2006
  7. Liu YubaoOct 12, 2006
  8. Martin WaitzOct 11, 2006
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 11, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2006
  11. Martin WaitzOct 12, 2006
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 21, 2006

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