From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: .git file (Re: [long] worktree setup cases)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:28:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101022052855.GA786@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101022050011.GA27179@nibiru.local>
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Why not using a symlink here ?
Suppose I wonder just that. grepping through setup.c for ".git file",
I find the function read_gitfile_gently() --- why was that added?
$ git log -Sread_gitfile_gently setup.c
commit b44ebb19e3234c5dffe9869ceac5408bb44c2e20
Author: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Feb 20 23:13:13 2008 +0100
Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hope that helps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-22 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 8:59 [long] worktree setup cases Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-20 19:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-20 19:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-21 1:46 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-21 3:30 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-21 12:50 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-21 16:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-23 10:12 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-21 18:51 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-22 0:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-22 5:00 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-22 5:28 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-22 5:36 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-20 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-21 2:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-21 19:01 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-21 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
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