From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:02 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the ".git/gitdir" file?
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaXdjxT2jbHGHYPN0Bnk_4ZFrPo0sXKUrVvynoMfLPjCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Randall S. Becker
<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
> Slightly OT: Is there any way of avoiding having that file in the first place? I'm hoping to have a git repository in a normal file system (Posix) and a working area in a rather less-than-normal one where dots in file names are bad (actually a dot is a separator).

As said before, I would not expect a file .git/gitdir to be there if
not using submodules.
For your OT question, I'd presume you'd have environment variables setup
    export GIT_DIR=path_with_no_dots_and_git_repo_in_it # you mention
that is in your posix FS
    export GIT_WORK_TREE=/some.place.with.dot.separators
and you'd be good to go.


>
> Cheers,
> Randall
>