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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR with git clone
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:23:41 -0800
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Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to be able to tell my users that they can simply do:
>
> git clone --git-dir=_/git/module1/.git module1-url
> git clone --git-dir=_/git/module2/.git module2-url
>
> which will overlay the files from both modules into the current
> directory, which from git's perspective is the work-tree for both
> modules.

Would there be a sensible semantics in the resulting working tree?
Which repository would a new file in such a combined working tree
belong to?