On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 04:40:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Judging from the occasional "I tried core.worktree but it does not work in > this and that situations" I see here and on #git, my impression is that > new people try it, saying "git is cool -- unlike cvs that sprinkles those > ugly CVS directories all over the place, it only contaminates my work tree > with a single directory '.git' and nothing else. Ah, wait --- what's this > core.worktree thing? Can I get rid of that last one as well? That sounds > even cooler". > > IOW, I do not think it is really _needed_ per-se as a feature, but it was > done because it was thought to be doable, which unfortunately turned out > to involve hair-pulling complexity that the two attempts that led to the > current code still haven't resolved. > > I really wish we do not have to worry about that anymore. Well, as a non-user of this feature, I certainly have no argument against taking it out. Maybe the subject line will pull some other people into the discussion. -Peff -- 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
