Re: Bug Report: git add

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2011, 07:48 UTC
Message-ID: <m31v1a4keq.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20110406055200.GA12547@kytes>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Darren Cook writes:

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> > PROBLEM: "git add" adds sub-directories without checking to see if there
> > is already a git repository already there.
> > 
> > WHY BAD: This causes files to be in two repositories (leading to a mess
> > if you don't notice for a while...)
> > 
> > ONE SOLUTION: When adding files from a directory (except root of the
> > repository, of course) look for a .git subdirectory, and complain if
> > found. Allow --force to override this.
> 
> This is a good suggestion.  It already has a way to handle gitlinks
> (for submodules), so this seems like a very reasonable feature.

I just hope that a suboptimal workflow that I use won't stop working.

Currently I have TODO file in gitweb/ subdirectory, which is stored in gitweb/.git repository. Still it doesn't prevent me from "git add"-ing e.g. 'gitweb/gitweb.perl' to git repository itself.

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Jakub Narebski
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