From: Eric Lesh <eclesh@ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:38:08 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code
Message-ID: <1174930688.5662.20.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr6rbex7g.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:22 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 
> I don't see any contradiction.
> 
> Light checkouts would have an almost empty .git (it still needs an
> index, and its own head anyway) and use the .git of the main repo for
> everything else.
> 

Josef Weidendorfer tried to implement this before, and he concluded that
having a _text file_ .git, instead of a directory, would be a good way
to distinguish .gitlinked checkouts from normal checkouts.

As far as .git/link, that would seem to work better.  As long as there
is a sanity check to make sure that you don't manage to mix things up,
it might be fine.

-Eric