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Subject: [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:53:58 +0800
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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.