Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 25, 2005, 00:52 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505241748520.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8y24taai.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> LT> I considered it, but it's so much easier to allow things
> LT> later than deny them, that I preferred being anal about it.
> 
> That is not the point.  GIT_DIR set to "GIT" would happily suck
> index file in.  You are not being anal enough.

Heh. There's a difference between being anal, and allowing people to shoot themselves in the foot.

I'll happily allow people who _try_ to do stupid things to do them ;)

It's the

	find . -type f | cut -d/ -f2- | xargs git-update-cache --add --

kinds of "unintentionally stupid" scripts I want to avoid (and the reason I do that is because that's basically _exactly_ the script I used when testing something ;)

		Linus