Re: [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mar 25, 2008, 00:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803250017450.27378@kaos.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w5zslv5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Show 14 quoted lines

> Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> % git-add -f foo/.git/bar
>>> fatal: unable to add foo/.git/bar to index
>>
>> Well, git won't allow .git as a element anywhere in the path, when we
>> should only care about the _first_ one - and also, if you use
>> --git-dir=banana then we still check for '.git' ... oops.
>
> That's not how git-dir is supposed to used, so there is no oops.

So I can't _ever_ have a directory/file called '.git'? But I _can_ add files inside my repository provided that the repository is not called .git? How is that not an oops, or extremely confusing at the least?

i.e.:

'git add .git/fred' fails 'git --git-dir=.git_repos --work-tree=. add .git/fred' fails 'git --git-dir=.git_repos --work-tree=. add .git_repos/fred' works

> Also it is false that we should only care about the first one.  Think
> submodules.

Ok, true. I've never used submodules, can you add things inside submodules from the parent? If so, where do they get added - presumably to the submodule?

Show 5 quoted lines

> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>

-- 
Julian

  ---
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some
rays and became a tangent ?