Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 5, 2008, 00:49 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802050047340.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47A79541.6070900@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> When we talk about clones we are not always talking about a strict 
> "full" clone.

Here, sir, we disagree. I tend to like the fact that a clone is a clone is a clone. Which BTW is the reason why I do not like requests to "clone" only one branch: this is not a clone.

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> If your statement above is rephrased to "I _want_ the original 
> repository to know that it has conjoined siblings.", then we have a new 
> repository type:
> 
> 	4) conjoined repository (it has multiple sibling repositories each
> 	   with their own working directory, but they all share and modify the
> 	   same .git directory)

No. The repository does not even need a working directory (in which case we call it "bare"). Up until now, it _can_ have _one_ working directory. With my plans, it can have more than one.

Ciao, Dscho