From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:34:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule vs GIT_WORK_TREE
Message-ID: <CAD77+gSu-RxtcyXqpF6+VanLh==_BJymTAnY2M_EiMz=b63F6g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvci93k6k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

First of all, thanks for your detailed analysis; it cleared things up
for me quite a bit.

I am not sure if this would work in all cases, but let's assume there
is a new GIT_WORK_ROOT which will always point to the top level of a
given repository (it would stay the same for submodules, as well).

As for storage of .git, GIT_DIR_ROOT would always point to a directory
where git data is stored and GIT_DIR_NAME to the relative path within
GIT_DIR_ROOT. Admittedly, this may be rather specific to vcsh, but I
don't see any other (reliable) option to support submodules.


Thanks,
Richard