From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:34:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Handle git versions of the form n.n.n.GIT
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707171532070.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070717214510.GV19073@lavos.net>



On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Brian Downing wrote:
> 
> D'oh, now I know why.  I'm trying git to keep my home directory config
> stuff versioned, so GIT-VERSION-GEN, failing to find a .git directory
> in my tar export, digs down and finds my home directory one instead.

Ok, that's definitely a git misfeature.

I think we could probably add a check something like:

 - once we have found a .git directory by walking up the tree, the 
   directory we actually came _from_ should then be tracked by that git 
   directory.

but I wonder how to do that properly (we would probably need to load the 
index, which we generally don't want to do).

		Linus