Hi,

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Matthias Kestenholz wrote:

quoted text
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 14:30 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Alex Riesen wrote:
> > > On 1/19/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> % cd .hg && hg status -A .
> > >> abort: path contains illegal component: .hg
> > >>
> > >> I think this is a sensible thing to do.
> > > 
> > > No, it isn't. It is not unlikely to have repo in repo
> > > (and some people already have them).
> > > Mercurial is wrong here.
> > 
> > For managing repos inside repos (onion repos?) I think it should
> > be safe to abort if we're not at top-level.
> > 
> 
> 
> Why not check for /.git/ somewhere inside the current working directory 
> (pwd) ? That's the way mercurial does it currently, and I think that is 
> a sane thing to do _if_ you want to protect the user from his own 
> stupidity.

There are valid reasons why you might want to have a (possibly 
temporary) repository _inside_ the GIT_DIR. You'd break these cases.

Ciao,
Dscho

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