On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:43:45PM +0200, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > Hi git folks, > > Honestly I'm not aware of the reason behind .git being read-only, but > I'm sure there is one. > > 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. > > Would you find reasonable to add an option to keep .git writable on > cloned repos? > > PS: I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me on replies. > > Thanks! > Albert
To clarify, you are probably referring to things like pack-files, which are created read-only. Most files / directories in .git are writable. It think this is already quite old behavior and I could not find any reference as to why this is done.
