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From: Brad Larson <bklarson@gmail.com>
Subject: .git as file pointing to directory?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:22:25 -0500
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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?

Thanks!
Brad