From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:54:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] clone: allow to clone from .git file
Message-ID: <7v7h66y4s5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1313927890-21227-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> +		else if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode) && st.st_size > 8) {
> +			/* Despite the name read_gitfile_gently can be
> +			   cruel on non .git file, check for signature
> +			   ourselves */

Didn't somebody add "is this '.git' thing a valid git metadirectory?" API
quite recently for exactly this?