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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:37:41 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:

> If you were going to avoid symlinks, then probably the cleanest way would be
> to have an explict way to point at the actual repo - rather than making the
> working look like a repo if you squint hard enough.  Which sounds rather like
> it would be an extension to GIT_DIR + GIT_WORK_TREE.

Almost.  .git/{config,HEAD} are not shared.  So it would be some extension 
that is triggered by something like

	[core]
		realGitDir = /bla/bla/.git/

Hmm?

Ciao,
Dscho