From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:39:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Moving .git away from existing repos/worktrees I have.
>
> You are only saying you want to move it, not saying why you want to move
> it.
>
> That is not an explanation _why_ it is useful to be able to do so.

The same reason why I don't want to place .git close to worktree in
the first place (paranoid, throwaway worktree, disk constraint...). If
I'm going to make a policy that "there must be no .git under ~/w", new
repos with --real-git-dir are ok, but what about old repos?
-- 
Duy