From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:39:09 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200610170119.09066.jnareb@gmail.com> On 10/17/06, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Aaron Bentley wrote: > > Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> About "checkouts", i.e. working directories with repository elsewhere: > >> you can use GIT_DIR environmental variable or "git --git-dir" option, > >> or symlinks, and if Nguyen Thai Ngoc D proposal to have .gitdir/.git > >> "symref"-like file to point to repository passes, we can use that. > > > > It sounds like the .gitdir/.git proposal would give Git "checkouts", by > > our meaning of the term. > > Actually it is better to work with clone of repository, perhaps either > symlinking object database, or by alternates mechanism (with alternates > repositories would share old history, but gather new independetly > I think). I agree. Each Git repository is designed to work with one working directory. Using .gitdir/.git proposal, you are likely to checkout two working directories from one repo. -- Duy