From: Pasha Bolokhov <pasha.bolokhov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 05:23:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem: staging of an alternative repository
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