Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:

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> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> % git-add -f foo/.git/bar
>> fatal: unable to add foo/.git/bar to index
>
> Well, git won't allow .git as a element anywhere in the path, when we
> should only care about the _first_ one - and also, if you use
> --git-dir=banana then we still check for '.git' ... oops.

That's not how git-dir is supposed to used, so there is no oops.

Also it is false that we should only care about the first one.  Think
submodules.
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