Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Heh, if we are to do the attention-getter, let's do so more strongly ;-) -- 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
