From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Brad Larson <bklarson@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .git as file pointing to directory?
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:35:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD31904.5040308@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqpqulc52q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Am 04.11.2010 19:32, schrieb Matthieu Moy:
> Brad Larson <bklarson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Sorry if this is obvious, I can't figure out what term to search for.
>>
>> 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. Is there a specific name for
>> this feature? Where can I find more details? Which version of git
>> introduced this?
>
> It has been discussed under the name "gitlink", which was
> unfortunately also used for something else in the subtree
> implementation, but AFAIK, it has never been implemented.
Hmm, AFAIK gitlinks are already in heavy use for submodule entries ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 20:35 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 [this message]
2010-11-04 22:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-11-04 23:28 ` Jens Lehmann
2010-11-04 18:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-04 21:07 ` Brad Larson
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