Re: Question around git-shell usage in Everyday Git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2006, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602011523000.21884@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200602012301.56141.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Alan Chandler wrote:

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> My question, in this case is there any reason (such as git creating home 
> directoriy temp files or something) why each developer could not have their 
> home directory as the root of all the repositories (ie where my git user in 
> the above example had its home directory).

No reason why not.

I use my home directory for all _my_ projects, and just clone them within my own network with

	git pull g5:v2.6/linux ..

rather than using the absolute path-name.

And no, git should never use your home directory for anything else (ie all file operations are normally done just in $GIT_OBJECT_DIR or similar: some things like "git-diff-files" will use the current working directory, but nothing uses $HOME (*)).

So I would indeed suggest that the home directory would be the natural place to put developer projects.

		Linus

(*) Not entirely true. "git-cvsimport" uses "$HOME/.cvspass" for CVS passwords. But the _basic_ git commands shouldn't do that.