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From: Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Request] Option to make .git not read-only in cloned repos
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:58:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAQViEv1_YXPxLRN=eT7yQhro55K4audnouzAjjbHhJsU7pgQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d31b871a-5c2d-99e7-5616-6f43759bb948@kdbg.org>

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 7:54 PM Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>
> Am 23.08.19 um 22:43 schrieb Albert Vaca Cintora:
> > However, I'm sure that a large percentage of developers out there will
> > agree with me that having to use force (-f) to delete every cloned
> > repo is annoying, and even worse, it creates the bad habit of always
> > force-deleting everything.
>
> IMO, the bad habit is to delete cloned repositories all the time. If
> your workflow necessitates this, then you are doing something wrong.
> Maybe you have an X-Y-problem?
>
> -- Hannes

There are plenty of valid workflows where one would delete a repo.

What you suggest is like saying I shouldn't delete pictures from my
camera, because in that case I shouldn't have taken them in the first
place.

Sometimes I clone a repo just to grep for an error string and then I
don't need it anymore, or I clone several repos until I find the one
that contains what I want and delete the rest. Sometimes I want to
write a patch for some software I don't develop regularly so I don't
need to keep a clone of it.

In any case, it would be useful to know the reason those files are
read-only in the first place. Do you guys know who might know?

Albert

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-25 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-23 20:43 [Feature Request] Option to make .git not read-only in cloned repos Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-25 11:59 ` Kevin Daudt
2019-08-25 14:39   ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-25 17:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-08-25 19:58   ` Albert Vaca Cintora [this message]
2019-08-25 22:41     ` Philip Oakley
2019-08-26 14:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26 18:42         ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-26 19:18           ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-27 19:35           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-30 12:49             ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-30 16:38               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-30 18:26                 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-30 19:25                   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-31 20:40                     ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-08-26 14:27     ` Randall S. Becker
2019-08-26 15:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-26 16:19         ` Randall S. Becker

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