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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Subject: Re: Dropping core.worktree and GIT_WORK_TREE support
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:37:48 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:21:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The real question was about if/why that git repository _has to be_ outside
> of /usr/lib/*/Pootle/.  Is that because --work-tree, if worked properly,
> would have allowed it to be, or is that because for some external reason
> you are not allowed to have .git under /usr/lib/*/Pootle/ directory?

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the reason is that Pootle runs as the
user 'pootle' which has write access to some /var/pootle or /home/pootle
dir, but has no write access to /usr/lib/*/Pootle/.

> If the latter, that shows the real requirement to keep supporting it as a
> feature, and issues around it need to be fixed.  Otherwise, i.e. if it
> does not require use of --work-tree but it uses it only because it could,
> that gives us less incentive to keep --work-tree as a feature.

I think this is the latter, though as I mentioned previously - it can be
still worked around by a "cd /other/path; git <command>; cd -" (speaking
in shell commands), so it is not a "must", it would be just ugly IMHO.

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