From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1778E1F66E for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726948AbgHSUi2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:38:28 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:35844 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725275AbgHSUi1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:38:27 -0400 Received: (qmail 28634 invoked by uid 109); 19 Aug 2020 20:38:26 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:38:26 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 9658 invoked by uid 111); 19 Aug 2020 20:38:26 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:38:26 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:38:25 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Junio C Hamano Cc: "Randall S. Becker" , 'Lukas Straub' , 'git' , 'Elijah Newren' , 'Brandon Williams' , 'Johannes Schindelin' Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories Message-ID: <20200819203825.GA2511902@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <04aa01d67659$2dc217b0$89464710$@nexbridge.com> <20200819201736.GA2511157@coredump.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:32:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > It _could_ still be useful in a more isolated environment (e.g., your > > company server that is serving only internal repos to employees). But I > > have misgivings about a feature that lets people intentionally create > > repositories whose history cannot ever interact with other users who > > haven't set a special config flag. It's one thing to say "to take > > advantage of this feature, we must all agree to have version X, or set > > flag Y". But it's another to bake that restriction into the repository > > history for all time. > > If people want a pre-prepared repository propagated to CI > environment and keep trakc of the state of such repository over > time, for example, they can use (versioned) tarballs. Such a > tarball won't automatically get extracted after "git pull" (which > is a feature), but those who want such a pre-prepared repository > for CI can make the extraction step as a part of their CI build > procedure. Yeah, I almost went into more detail there. There are lots of solutions that make accessing an embedded sub-repository only one command away for the person who clones. :) Some others are: - just call it "foo.git", and "mv foo.git .git" solves it (you'd probably want to "git checkout -f" after that, but even if it were embedded it seems silly to hold the data in two separate formats anyway - just hold a bare repository ("foo.git") and then clone it etc. I think this is really a solution in search of a problem. -Peff