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Re: [ANNOUNCE] gitfs pre-release 0.04

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2006, 19:40 UTC
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Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
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>   * At the top of each tree there's now a synthetic ".git" directory
>     which includes some symlinks and a "HEAD" file that points to
>     the currently viewed root.  The idea is to allow some simple git
>     commands to work inside of a gitfs directory.  Unfortunately this doesn't
>     work yet since git no longer recognizes a non-symbolic ref in "HEAD".
>     I'll try to work around this soon.

Not true. Symlink HEAD still works, and we have even core.preferSymlinkRefs configuration variable.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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