From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:19:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4D700469.7090807@gmail.com> 2011/3/4 Piotr Krukowiecki : >>  This makes '.git symbolic link' (what's its official name?) more >>  convenient to use. Previously whenever I need to create a .git link, >>  I need to open docs to see its format. Now all I need to do is > > Took me a while to find documentation for .git file format. Probably my > fault, missed the gitrepository-layout link. Exactly why I wrote this patch. I do remember there is a prefix before the path, but what is it? gitdir: or git-dir: or dir:? No I don't want to look at the document every time I need to create a link. Trial and error is not preferred either. Also manual manipulation on repos should be avoided if possible. -- Duy