From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:30:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <20070313203054.GA6139@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vd53cj55n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> By the way, why should it be $GIT_DIR/workdir when it appears
> everybody is putting things in $GIT_DIR/config?  Shouldn't it be
> something like:
> 
> 	[core]
>         	worktree = "/path/to/the/working/tree"

That's right.  When I wrote the code I first had only support for a
directory in $GIT_DIR/workdir (using a symlink) and added a file after
that.  Using a symlink is still easily possible with core.worktree =
workdir.