From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: redstun <redstun@gmail.com>, Mike Gant <mike@gantsfort.com>
Subject: Re: [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:27:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110205132708.GA18391@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110205032339.GA15303@mg1>
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Mike Gant wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:53:58AM +0800, redstun wrote:
>> I think separating the .git directory from its working tree could
>> increase the safety of the data to one more level higher.
[...]
> GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE might be what you are looking for. Explanation
> of usage in 'man git'
The .git directory is allowed to be a symlink. Or a file like so
gitdir: /path/to/git/repo
for symlink-challenged operating systems. See gitrepository-layout(7)
for details.
Cheers,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-05 13:27 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
2011-02-05 13:27 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
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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