Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: This may be controversial from the robustness standpoint, so I am placing it in the proposed update queue first. Discussions on the list very welcomed. I'd vote against it: As of now, I can perfectly do export PATH=$PATH:/whereever/my/git/is

Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be controversial from the robustness standpoint, so I am placing it in the proposed update queue first. Discussions on the list very welcomed. I'd vote against it: As of now, I can

Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to not being forced to install git. Scenario: I have an SSH account on a remote machine. I am not root there, but I'd like to synchronize my work with git. I can not install git. Sorry, but now you completely lost me. You want git, you

Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread barkalow
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote: * Make git-init-db create an absolute minimum $GIT_DIR structure itself, if the template directory is not available, possibly with a warning. This would be exactly what I'd like. Let git-init-db create .git/objects/[0-9a-f]{2}/,

Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I seem to recall a patch to create subdirectories of .git/refs on demand (needed for tags/v99/1). I'd say just .git/objects/(everything), .git/refs, and .git/info. Having thought about this a bit more, I am inclined to drop this. I see the template mechanism to

Re: [PATCH] Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well.

2005-08-04 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: Oh, I see. Then the templates/Makefile building into templates/blt and then installing if you say make install approach I described earlier would hopefully work perfectly well for you. Just like you tack the $src to your $PATH, you can define