git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2020, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID
<xmqqa6yqtm03.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To
<20200819201736.GA2511157@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
Show 8 quoted lines
> It _could_ still be useful in a more isolated environment (e.g., your
> company server that is serving only internal repos to employees). But I
> have misgivings about a feature that lets people intentionally create
> repositories whose history cannot ever interact with other users who
> haven't set a special config flag. It's one thing to say "to take
> advantage of this feature, we must all agree to have version X, or set
> flag Y". But it's another to bake that restriction into the repository
> history for all time.

If people want a pre-prepared repository propagated to CI environment and keep trakc of the state of such repository over time, for example, they can use (versioned) tarballs. Such a tarball won't automatically get extracted after "git pull" (which is a feature), but those who want such a pre-prepared repository for CI can make the extraction step as a part of their CI build procedure.

Previous: Jeff KingNext: Jeff King
Message 9 of 27 in “Allow adding .git files and directories”
  1. 0/2 Allow adding .git files and directoriesLukas Straub, Aug 19, 2020
  2. 2/2 dir: Recurse into nested git repos if they aren't submodulesLukas Straub, Aug 19, 2020
  3. 1/2 dir/read-cache: Allow adding .git files and directoriesLukas Straub, Aug 19, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2020
  5. Randall S. BeckerAug 19, 2020
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2020
  7. Randall S. BeckerAug 19, 2020
  8. Jeff KingAug 19, 2020
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 19, 2020
  10. Jeff KingAug 19, 2020
  11. Randall S. BeckerAug 19, 2020
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 20, 2020
  13. Lukas StraubAug 20, 2020
  14. Jeff KingAug 20, 2020
  15. Lukas StraubAug 21, 2020
  16. Randall S. BeckerAug 21, 2020
  17. brian m. carlsonAug 21, 2020
  18. Lukas StraubAug 22, 2020
  19. brian m. carlsonAug 22, 2020
  20. Lukas StraubAug 22, 2020
  21. Johannes SchindelinAug 24, 2020
  22. Lukas StraubAug 20, 2020
  23. Jeff KingAug 20, 2020
  24. Lukas StraubAug 19, 2020
  25. Lukas StraubAug 19, 2020
  26. Randall S. BeckerAug 19, 2020
  27. Lukas StraubAug 20, 2020

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.