From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:26:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] init, clone: support --real-git-dir for .git file
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2011/3/4 Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>:
> I thought it was user-level file, like $GIT_DIR
>
> I'm not into data duplication, but in this case the message is next to the
> previous use:
>
>       if (prefixcmp(buf, "gitdir: "))
>               die("Invalid gitfile format: %s\nUse gitdir: <PATH>", path);
>
>
> BTW I think it might be enough to have just path in the .git file. If
> .git has path
> to a correct git repo then chances it's coincidence are quite low.
> (The format does not matter if it's internal file of course)

It's actually good that path is prefixed by gitdir. I imagine once
superproject is supported, .git file in subprojects will have another
line

supergitdir: /path/to/superproject
-- 
Duy