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It's actually not a problem for many web developers. If you're working in Rails, Django, etc., you're not going to have the DOCROOT pointed at your top level directory. And .git is only in the top level directory, which is already an improvement over .svn.

But let's say we agree it's an issue and should be fixed. What alternative solution would you propose? You can't just get rid of the "magic file" because it actually contains your version history, the thing you wanted to track in the first place.