From: Brad Larson <bklarson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:07:00 GMT
Subject: Re: .git as file pointing to directory?
Message-ID: <AANLkTinMiSNCC0EUDRvxiW0V+upjEemP_xYwjcWcNC6L@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101104184321.GA16929@burratino>

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> Brad Larson wrote:
>
>> At gittogether there was some talk about having .git be a file, not a
>> folder, with contents pointing to the real .git directory.  Similar to
>> a symlink, but supported in Windows.
>
> It is called a .git file.  See gitrepository-layout(5), v1.5.6-rc0~93^2~3
> (Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20), and the recent
> rebase not handling core.worktree thread[1].

Thanks so much Jonathan.  We were just listing the location of the
folder, but prepending it with "gitdir: " fixed things.

Thanks!
Brad

>
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160488/focus=160567
>