On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:41:57 +0100 Richard Hartmann <richih.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:33, Dieter Plaetinck <die...@plaetinck.be> > wrote: > > > I don't understand what you mean. can you explain all the steps > > involved so that I get where the problem lies? > > When I clone, I need a place to clone into. If that information is > stored in the repo which I am about to clone, I can not access the > storage location before storing it... Chicken, meet egg. to clarify, I actually meant GIT_WORK_TREE (which equals VCSH_BASE) i.e. this is not about where to clone the repository too (or well, that might be a problem too in the described use-case but you can always just choose unique repo names to avoid collisions), it's about where git should put the files brought forth by the repository. so it's not a chicken-egg problem, although there is a problem, and that is that the `worktree` setting is stored in .git/config which doesn't get passed by cloning, fetching or merging. I'm not sure yet whether we can set configuration per-repository _and_ pass it when cloning/fetching, but at least we only need to know the worktree setting just before the actual `git merge origin/master` step (i.e. after the fetch), so something like versionning the actual config within the repo would work. Dieter _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
