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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 19, 2020, 18:03 UTC
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Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de> writes:
> These patches allow this and work well in a quick test. Of course some tests
> fail because with this the handling of nested git repos changed.

In other words, this breaks the workflow existing users rely on, right? I do not know if such a behaviour ever needs to exist even as an opt-in feature, but it definitely feels wrong to make the behaviour these patches introduce the default.

Thanks.
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Message 4 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

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