From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:19:06 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikaD5oxx2bwx0R3x_1p1KnfBFqJJ2xtNiWW4-SC@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D700469.7090807@gmail.com>
2011/3/4 Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>:
>> This makes '.git symbolic link' (what's its official name?) more
>> convenient to use. Previously whenever I need to create a .git link,
>> I need to open docs to see its format. Now all I need to do is
>
> Took me a while to find documentation for .git file format. Probably my
> fault, missed the gitrepository-layout link.
Exactly why I wrote this patch. I do remember there is a prefix before
the path, but what is it? gitdir: or git-dir: or dir:? No I don't want
to look at the document every time I need to create a link. Trial and
error is not preferred either. Also manual manipulation on repos
should be avoided if possible.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-03 12:43 [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-03-03 21:13 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-03 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 7:41 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-04 12:26 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 18:09 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-03-04 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 4:19 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2011-03-04 0:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04 4:33 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 4:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 6:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-04 6:39 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-04 6:57 ` Miles Bader
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