Re: Problem: staging of an alternative repository

From: Pasha Bolokhov <pasha.bolokhov@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2014, 05:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKpPgvcbYf4nJPqYECOe3Kkgk-UnYrWePYkz76NU+-ok_6AqUQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140430213545.GV9218@google.com>

    Hi Jonathan

Thanks for the answers

> I think it's more that it never came up.  Excluding the current
> $GIT_DIR from what "git add" can add (on top of the current rule of
> excluding all instances of ".git") seems like a sensible change,
> assuming it can be done without hurting the code too much. ;-)

I did notice it to have come up in the forums in some related but non-transparent ways.

Anyway, this can hopefully be easily fixed and I can look into it. My understanding is, that unlike the special treatment of ".git", the alternative repository (call it '.gut') should only be "ignored" at the *top* of the work tree and not anywhere deeper inside. And of course, the special treatment (that is, the ignoring) of ".git" should be kept as it is. Am I right?

   regards
Pavel