From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:52:23 GMT Subject: Re: git-update-cache: allow dot-files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v8y24taai.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds 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