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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/34] Add t1510 and basic rules that run repo setup
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 2010/10/27 Nguy=E1=BB=85n Th=C3=A1i Ng=E1=BB=8Dc Duy <pclouds@gmail.c=
om>:

>> +# 2. .git file is relative to git_dir. .git file is basically symli=
nk
>> +# =C2=A0 =C2=A0in disguise.
>
> This is not completely followed in my tests. If .git is a true
> symlink, its link is relative to .git itself. When .git is a file, it
> would be more difficult to calculate path relative to .git (you can't
> chdir to a file).

I'm not sure I understand:

 git init repo
 cd repo
 mv .git .git.real
 ln -s .git.real .git

The path ".git.real" is relative to "repo/", not "repo/.git/", no?
=20
In other words, I don't you think you have to worry --- the test

> In my tests, the link is relative to .git's parent
> directory, not .git.

seems right.