Hi Jonathan Thanks for the answers > I think it's more that it never came up. Excluding the current > $GIT_DIR from what "git add" can add (on top of the current rule of > excluding all instances of ".git") seems like a sensible change, > assuming it can be done without hurting the code too much. ;-) I did notice it to have come up in the forums in some related but non-transparent ways. Anyway, this can hopefully be easily fixed and I can look into it. My understanding is, that unlike the special treatment of ".git", the alternative repository (call it '.gut') should only be "ignored" at the *top* of the work tree and not anywhere deeper inside. And of course, the special treatment (that is, the ignoring) of ".git" should be kept as it is. Am I right? regards Pavel -- 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