From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Brad Larson <bklarson@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .git as file pointing to directory?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:43:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101104184321.GA16929@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikB4p9=EQRsAJTe4-nAw5udz2pfcRd4WPsfms86@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Brad,
Brad Larson wrote:
> At gittogether there was some talk about having .git be a file, not a
> folder, with contents pointing to the real .git directory. Similar to
> a symlink, but supported in Windows.
It is called a .git file. See gitrepository-layout(5), v1.5.6-rc0~93^2~3
(Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20), and the recent
rebase not handling core.worktree thread[1].
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160488/focus=160567
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 18:22 .git as file pointing to directory? Brad Larson
2010-11-04 18:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-04 20:35 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-11-04 22:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-04 23:28 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-11-04 18:43 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-04 21:07 ` Brad Larson
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