Re: git ls-files -o under .git/ prints all repository files

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2007, 07:57 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0701182357l3a6d44fel58da50c7895fb6b4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45B07875.9030506@fs.ei.tum.de>

On 1/19/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:

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> > Amusing problems deserve an equally amusing solution.
>
> I guess you are not serious.  I wonder, why does git-ls-files ever
> list files under .git?  I'd just say:  fail if you want to list $GIT_DIR.

Not list. Clean. What's wrong with listing them?

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>  Maybe other tools should do so as well.
>
> % cd .hg && hg status -A .
> abort: path contains illegal component: .hg
>
> I think this is a sensible thing to do.

No, it isn't. It is not unlikely to have repo in repo (and some people already have them). Mercurial is wrong here.