Re: git's is_inside_git_dir too strict?

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2007, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0703070812y27425b07pf78fbdf14898b360@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070307155307.GC27596@spearce.org>

On 3/7/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was run in /home/pclouds/blog/data, which is the working directory
> > of data.git.
>
> Why not just symlink it?
>
>         cd /home/pclouds/blog/data
>         ln -s ../data.git .git

It's currently my workaround.

> But really, why is your Git repository for the working directory
> outside of the working directory?  Why not just move data.git to
> data/.git ?

The directory "data" is automatically manipulated by scripts. I feel it safer for data.git being outside of data so if I make any mistake, data.git _might_ remain intact. You see, if I link data/.git to data.git, my scripts' bugs might affect data.git too.

> --
> Shawn.
>

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Duy