From: Jakub Narebski Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:48:31 GMT Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code Message-ID: <200703270248.31631.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> Stupid question: why .gitlink, and not .git/link or so? This file is >>> not versionned, I don't think it should be in the working tree. >> >> It would be special-cased, as is .git directory not versioned, the >> same way .gitlink would be not versioned (not like .gitignore). > > That's how I understand it, but why 2 special cases (.git and > .gitlink) when you need one? Well, in the first proposal we didn't though about idea of having lightweight checkout .git/ directory (with .git/link, or core.link in .git/config) to have only parts of it, perhaps overriding main files. -- Jakub Narebski Poland