From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:38:50 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610211035170.3962@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610211007320.3962@g5.osdl.org>



On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 	# Tell people we want to work with ".git-1"
> 	export GIT_DIR=.git-1

Actually, I think Jakub's approach is better: you'd be better off doing 
this as

	alias git-1="git --git-dir=.git-1"
	alias git-2="git --git-dir=.git-2"

and now you should be able to just do

	git-1 diff

(or any other git command) and

	git-2 diff

and can happily share the same directory and mix git commands without 
changing an environment variable all the time.

That would still be insane, but it wouldn't likely be _quite_ as confusing 
(or error-prone in case you forgot to switch the variable).

			Linus

PS. I'd still _not_ suggest doing this. It should _work_, but I mean - 
really..