On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:51:18PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Konrad Karl venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2010 17:03: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:50:21PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> Konrad Karl venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2010 16:32: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > ......... > > Because this information does not getting transfered with git clone. > > > > People have the chance to forget to set this variable after cloning the > > source repo and they will. > > ...and the same is true for setting GIT_DIR appropriately for each repo > - people will commit to the wrong repo, which is even worse. That's why > it's a fragile approach to begin with. Is there no chance you could put > those libs in subdirs and use git modules? the chance exists for the future but the existing build system does not support it (especially for older releases which I would like to be able to rebuild as is). I think a script with a prominent name in the workdir which will set the git variable will be the next convenient solution which we can live with. thanks for your input, Konrad > > Michael -- 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