From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:50:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: Allow repo using gitfile as a reference
Message-ID: <20130409165022.GB20752@pug.qqx.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8v4rtzw4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

At 09:47 -0700 09 Apr 2013, Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com> wrote:
>Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com> writes:
>> But if others disagree, I could be convinced to add support for that.
>
>If M/.git weren't a gitfile that points elsewhere, that request
>ought to work, no?  A gitfile is the moral equilvalent of a symbolic
>link, meant to help people on platforms and filesystems that lack
>symbolic links, so in that sense, not supporting the case goes
>against the whole reason why we have added support for gitfile in
>the first place, I think.

OK, I'm convinced.  I'll modify it to support that as well.