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

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2008, 17:59 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580802020959v613b9e32v321e97f93f2af761@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802021550130.7372@racer.site>

On Feb 2, 2008 4:56 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
> > +static const char *read_gitfile_gently(const char *path)
> > +{
> > +     static char buf[PATH_MAX + 10];  /* "GITDIR: " + "\n" + "\0" */
>
> Why say "GITDIR:"?  Do you want to be able to set other things there, too,
> like GITWORKDIR?

Not ATM, but it might become useful to specify some other bits of configuration in this file (especially if one uses multiple workdirs).

Your other comments also made perfect sense so I'll send a reworked patch.

-- larsh