From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:27:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [idea] separate .git dir and the working tree
Message-ID: <20110205132708.GA18391@elie>
In-Reply-To: <20110205032339.GA15303@mg1>

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Mike Gant wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:53:58AM +0800, redstun wrote:

>> I think separating the .git directory from its working tree could
>> increase the safety of the data to one more level higher.
[...]
> GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE might be what you are looking for. Explanation
> of usage in 'man git'

The .git directory is allowed to be a symlink.  Or a file like so

	gitdir: /path/to/git/repo

for symlink-challenged operating systems.  See gitrepository-layout(7)
for details.

Cheers,
Jonathan