From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:33:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 2011/3/4 Miles Bader : > Junio C Hamano writes: >>> Instead of creating the repository at $GIT_DIR, --real-git-dir will >>> tell git to put the repository there, then make $GIT_DIR a .git file >>> that points to --real-git-dir. >> >> Just like you, I am also bad at naming things, so I cannot offhand suggest >> a better name, even though I _know_ --real-git-dir sounds horrible. > > --separate-git-dir  ? > > [Terms like "separate source dir" and "separate build dir" seems to be > common when talking about build systems, and it seems a somewhat > similar situation -- separation of usually co-located information.] Sounds good. -- Duy