Re: Global .git directory

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Thomas Rast wrote:

quoted

(In other words, please convince us that this is actually worth
having.)

Ok, rather than convincing I've written a (fast) patch which works for me
:-)

Any comments? Any (further) changes needed? Will you include it in main git?

Please see Documentation/SubmittingPatches. It's difficult to comment
on a non-inlined patch.

Patch done on top of HEAD.
git format-patch -M origin/master
0001-Added-global-git-directory-when-environment-variable.patch
0002-Added-global-git-directory-when-environment-variable.patch
0003-Updated-documentation-for-submitting-patches.patch
Attached.

BTW: The tutorial on http://git-scm.com/ is IHMO wrong:
git --version
git version 1.6.2.5
git commit -m 'Explain what I changed'
=>
git commit -a -m 'Explain what I changed'
=> Otherwise changed files are not committed, only added ones.
=> Therefore that are 2 commit ...

BTW2:
Why is it necessary to do:
# Displays only changed files
git diff
# Displays only added files
git diff --cached

I would like to have a full diff of my changes:
git diff -a
(or better "git diff -a" should be the default behaviour, I think 
that's very confusing for new users)

Ciao,
Gerhard

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