Re: gitweb wishlist

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 24, 2005, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241410380.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050524202846.GC25606@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

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> btw:
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> For the mutt tree there are a few 'empty commits' eg were the
> parent tree is the same as the current. This is because git ignores
> .cvsignore and they commited some .cvsignore files without any other
> deltas. I don't know if you want to handle this. Just a note.

I don't like source repositories with dot-files, and I thought it was a good idea to disallow them, but on the other hand I'd like it even less if some CVS-weenie goes and says "I can't convert my project to git without potentially losing information".

So in the name of furthering humanity through allowing people to migrate away from CVS, I'm considering making the git dot-file check be more specific to "." ".." and ".git". After all, project-specific rules might have their own porcelain-related ignore-files that cause dot-files to never appear..

Hmm.

		Linus