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Are there any problems with placing parts (or all) of texmf-local under Git source control? Git places a hidden directory in the folders it manages. Are there issues caused by doing this; would doing so bother any of the TeX configuration tools.

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no there are no implications. I use that method. – zeroth Mar 24 '12 at 14:29
@zeroth: That sounds like an answer. – raxacoricofallapatorius Mar 25 '12 at 19:19
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I tried to elaborate a bit more about what could also be done in another situation. I dont know your intentions of use, so I added a bit :) – zeroth Mar 25 '12 at 20:20

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No there are no implications. I belive the only files that will be searched for by the list generation tool is the files listed in the output of running:

kpsewhich --help, and then look under:
Recognized format names and their (abbreviations) and suffixes:.

None of these are defaulted in the .git folder (unless you add them to your script directory).

And even so it only searches files in certain sub-directories under for example tex.

Even though this does not pose any problem I generally like to have things separated, and have thus created a new folder to which I link by ln down to texmf-local. This enables one to quick-switch between different package versions if this it what you had in mind?

If it is a purely managing package versions on several machines and not real version controlling, what you had in mind is deemed appropriate.

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