From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subprojects tasks
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:45:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061217114546.GG12411@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612170101.09615.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
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hoi :)
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:01:09AM +0100, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> IMHO it simply is added flexibility to allow a checkout to be separate from
> the .git/ directory, same as explicitly setting $GIT_DIR would do.
> So this .gitlink file is on the one hand one kind of convenience for users
> which want to keep their repository separate, yet do not want to specify
> $GIT_DIR all the time in front of git commands.
> The .gitlink file simply makes the linkage to the separate repository
> persistent.
I can see the reason for wanting to use another object database,
but HEAD and index should always be stored together with the
checked out directory. So perhaps we just need some smart way to
search for the object database, but keep the .git directory.
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Martin Waitz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-17 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-16 18:32 Subprojects tasks Junio C Hamano
2006-12-16 18:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-16 23:01 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-16 23:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-17 0:01 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-17 11:45 ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2006-12-17 13:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-17 13:48 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-17 14:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-17 19:54 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-17 23:27 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-18 7:45 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-17 23:23 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-18 7:44 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-18 10:30 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-17 0:08 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-16 20:35 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2006-12-16 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-16 22:58 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-16 23:14 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2006-12-17 0:32 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2006-12-17 8:48 ` Alan Chandler
2006-12-17 10:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-17 11:17 ` Martin Waitz
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