"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I thought about symlinks. However find will follow symlinks and > traverse .git directories again. My goal is to prevent looking into > .git directories I do not think the user (i.e. the developer working in his git tree or git forest that hosts subprojects) should have to bend and move .git directories away from the directory structure he works in just to please the tool (i.e. find). In this case the tool has an easy way to bend itself to match what the user wants, which is: find ... \( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html