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From: "Mike Gant" <mike@gantsfort.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:23:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110205032339.GA15303@mg1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik4MjnpOzPdGy7ZDiH0in4e1DpjrhQFOHjUiEEE@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:53:58AM +0800, redstun wrote:
> First please shout if this is a known feature :-)
> 
> I think separating the .git directory from its working tree could
> increase the safety of the data to one more level higher.
> 
> We might have a git variable set to specify (a shared place) where to
> put the .git directories (or the data inside it), then use
> "/path/to/working/tree" as (or the seed to calculate) a hash key to
> map from the (.git directory in the) shared place to the working tree
> directory.
> 
> Or we may have just a few data (that can be re-created) stored in the
> .git directory along with the working tree, and most of the revision
> history stored in the shared place.

GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE might be what you are looking for. Explanation
of usage in 'man git'

HTH
Mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-05  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-05  2:53 [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree redstun
2011-02-05  3:23 ` Mike Gant [this message]
2011-02-05 13:27   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-05 14:24     ` redstun
2011-02-05 18:04       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-06  0:20     ` Mike Gant
2011-02-06  0:40       ` Mike Gant
2011-02-06  1:00         ` Jared Hance
2011-02-06 10:49           ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2011-02-06 10:55         ` [idea] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-02-07  4:57           ` Mike Gant
2011-05-23 14:40         ` [idea] " Michael Witten

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