From: Daniel Barkalow Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:20:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080624080437.GA2581@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:39:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > The shell version used to use "mkdir -p" to create the repo path, but > > > the C version just calls "mkdir". Let's replicate the old behavior. In > > > this case we can simply create the directories leading up to the git > > > dir. If it's a bare repo, then that is everything that init_db wants > > > ahead of time. If it isn't bare, then the worktree contains the git dir, > > > so we create the worktree. > > > > Clever ;-) > > I am worried that it is too clever. I didn't see an obvious way for > work_tree and git_dir to not have that property, but I think it is still > worth somebody double-checking. I think you can specify git_dir and work_tree on the command line, and set them to whatever you want, although I now don't remember whether they're actually both followed for clone (I tried to match the shell version, whose behavior didn't make too much sense to me). -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*