On 6/2/09, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Mark Mielke wrote:
>
> > I am curious about why an end user would really care? CVS and SVN both
> > kept local workspace directories containing metadata. If anything, I
> > find GIT the least intrusive of these three, as the .git is only in the
> > top-level directory, whereas CVS and SVN like to pollute every directory.
>
>
> That's not the problem. The problem is that it is kept in the same
> directory as the checked out copy. It would be a lot more usable if it
> was possible to store it elsewhere.
export GIT_DIR=...
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marko