Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Mark Mielke wrote:
I am curious about why an end user would really care? CVS and SVN both
kept local workspace directories containing metadata. If anything, I
find GIT the least intrusive of these three, as the .git is only in the
top-level directory, whereas CVS and SVN like to pollute every directory.
That's not the problem. The problem is that it is kept in the same
directory as the checked out copy. It would be a lot more usable if it
was possible to store it elsewhere.
I'm not following. CVS and SVN both kept such directories "in the
checked out copy." Recall the CSV/*,v files?
As for storing it elsewhere - if you absolute must, you can. There is a
--git-dir=GIT_DIR and --work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE option to all git
commands, and GIT_DIR / GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables.
I just don't understand why you care. If the CVS directories didn't bug
you before, why does the single .git directory bug you now? I'm
genuinely interested as I don't get it. :-)
Cheers,
mark
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