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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:51:12 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> By the way, none of the repositories has to "own" the .git directory. 
> This is made much easier by Lars's new changes. All of the repos could 
> contain a .git symlink file which points to some other directory.

First, the repository _is_ the .git directory.  Second, we already had 
GIT_DIR and --git-dir, which made it as easy...

Ciao,
Dscho