Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)
- From
Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
- Date
- Oct 12, 2009, 18:06 UTC
- Message-ID
- <f488382f0910121106h64571b93jb92372a1d7720b10@mail.gmail.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <20091012135910.ujqifycf9cwsk4ss@webmail.demarque.qc.ca>
I've had this problem too, but I eventually realized it was git's way of telling me I shouldn't do that. But even so, it'd be good if we _could_.
- Steven
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, <sylvain@demarque.qc.ca> wrote:
Show 43 quoted lines
> Hello there. I know I was being goofy, but here is the real down to
> earth question :
>
> Is there a known bug/feature that prevents Git from being used at "/"?
> It seems that there is a problem either at "git init" or "git add"
> when the repository is located at "/.git". (Git 1.6.4.4, see example
> below)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Quoting sylvain@demarque.qc.ca:
>
>> Git is good, Git is great! All praise the Git! :-D
>>
>> What do you people think about this strange phenomena?
>>
>> localhost / # git --version
>> git version 1.6.4.4
>>
>> localhost / # git init
>> Initialized empty Git repository in //.git/
>>
>> localhost / # cd etc
>> localhost etc # git add X11/xorg.conf
>> fatal: pathspec 'etc/X11/xorg.conf' did not match any files
>>
>> Aside from the obvious question of why would I want to Git the whole
>> tree ("But all files deserve the Holy Presence of the Git!"), why does
>> Git refuse the love offering from "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"? Is it because
>> it contains font directory configurations?
>>
>> Commit and [ENTER] to all,
>>
>> S! :-)
>> --
>> 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
> --
> 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
>