From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:40:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore"
Message-ID: <7vhc9aj82i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080824231343.GC27619@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> Perhaps we should rid of the worktree that is separate and floats
>> unrelated to where $GIT_DIR is.
>
> I assumed people were actually using it, which is why it was
> implemented.

Judging from the occasional "I tried core.worktree but it does not work in
this and that situations" I see here and on #git, my impression is that
new people try it, saying "git is cool -- unlike cvs that sprinkles those
ugly CVS directories all over the place, it only contaminates my work tree
with a single directory '.git' and nothing else.  Ah, wait --- what's this
core.worktree thing?  Can I get rid of that last one as well?  That sounds
even cooler".

IOW, I do not think it is really _needed_ per-se as a feature, but it was
done because it was thought to be doable, which unfortunately turned out
to involve hair-pulling complexity that the two attempts that led to the
current code still haven't resolved.

I really wish we do not have to worry about that anymore.