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From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Document the .git-file
Date: Mon,  4 Feb 2008 21:59:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202158761-31211-3-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202158761-31211-2-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

---
 Documentation/repository-layout.txt |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
index 6939130..e9db3a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ git repository layout
 
 You may find these things in your git repository (`.git`
 directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or
-`'project'.git` directory for a public 'bare' repository).
+`'project'.git` directory for a public 'bare' repository. It is
+also possible to have a working tree where `.git` is a plain
+ascii file containing `gitdir: <path>\n`, i.e. the path to the
+real git repository).
 
 objects::
 	Object store associated with this repository.  Usually
-- 
1.5.4.5.g25d066

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 20:59 [PATCH 0/4] Introduce the .git-file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-04 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add platform-independent .git "symlink" Lars Hjemli
2008-02-04 20:59   ` Lars Hjemli [this message]
2008-02-04 20:59     ` [PATCH 3/4] Add tests for .git file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-04 20:59       ` [PATCH 4/4] git-submodule: prepare for the .git-file Lars Hjemli
2008-02-04 22:23         ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-04 22:44           ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-06  3:25       ` [PATCH 3/4] Add tests for .git file Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06  7:56         ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] " Lars Hjemli
2008-02-06  8:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06  9:30             ` Lars Hjemli
2008-02-06 10:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-06 10:35                 ` Lars Hjemli

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