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From: redstun <redstun@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:53:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik4MjnpOzPdGy7ZDiH0in4e1DpjrhQFOHjUiEEE@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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.

             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-05  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-05  2:53 redstun [this message]
2011-02-05  3:23 ` [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree Mike Gant
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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