Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"

From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Feb 4, 2008, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <47A79820.50405@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <47A79541.6070900@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> If your statement above is rephrased to "I _want_ the original repository to
> know that it has conjoined siblings.", then we have a new repository type:
> 
> 	4) conjoined repository (it has multiple sibling repositories each
> 	   with their own working directory, but they all share and modify the
> 	   same .git directory)

By the way, none of the repositories has to "own" the .git directory. This is made much easier by Lars's new changes. All of the repos could contain a .git symlink file which points to some other directory.

I'm not saying this would be the common case, just with the .git directory not residing within _any_ of the repositories/work-dirs it really blurs any difference between them. They would all be equals, even though some may have been created _from_ the others. (if that makes sense)

-brandon