Carlos Martín Nieto <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> subdirectory "blah/.git"), but I do not think this is likely to change, as >> I suspect that people and scripts are relying on the current behaviour to >> be able to do something like this: >> >> cd /pub/scm/git/git.git ;# this is a bare repository >> mkdir /var/tmp/git >> git --work-tree=/var/tmp/git checkout > > This is in fact the way that many (or from what I can see the most > popular) tutorials for abusing git as a deployment system tell you to > run it (though more often than not setting GIT_WORKTREE in the > environment). Heh, *ab*using is a good description if they really mean to use it as a deployment system. For one thing it won't do anything a proper deployment should do if the target directory is not empty ;-) -- 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