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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git gc & deleted branches
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 01:25:49 -0400
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On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:51:15PM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

> When you create a new working directory, you would also create in the
> original repository a symlink named
> e.g. orig_repo/.git/peers/<some-arbitrary-name-that-doesn't-matter> that
> points to the .git directory of the newly created working directory.

That assumes you _can_ write to the original repository. That may or may
not be the case, depending on your setup.

-Peff