Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 25, 2007, 20:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3b3t3uws.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070325203901.GB12376@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Actually, I'd almost say put it into .git/config, e.g.:
>
> 	mkdir .git
> 	cat >.git/config <<EOF
> 	[core]
> 		repositoryversion = 0
> 		filemode = true
> 		link = /path/to/source
> 	EOF
>
> as then the index and HEAD file can both be stored in .git, just
> like with the non-gitlink case.

This is not usable at least for me as it does not allow sharing the .git/config file across checkouts.

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