From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 20:19:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vll3hxykj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > >>> This may be controversial from the robustness standpoint, so I >>> am placing it in the proposed update queue first. Discussions >>> on the list very welcomed. >> >> I'd vote against it: As of now, I can perfectly do >> >> export PATH=$PATH:/whereever/my/git/is >> git-init-db >> >> which would not work with this patch. > > I take it to mean that you do not mind building but would want > to try it out before installing. I'd like to not being forced to install git. Scenario: I have an SSH account on a remote machine. I am not root there, but I'd like to synchronize my work with git. I can not install git. > * Make git-init-db create an absolute minimum $GIT_DIR > structure itself, if the template directory is not available, > possibly with a warning. This would be exactly what I'd like. Let git-init-db create .git/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/, .git/refs/heads/, .git/refs/tags and .git/HEAD. Everything else is taken from the templates directory, if that exists. I would not warn if it does not. Ciao, Dscho