From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] separate .git from working directory
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0610211008t9da13a5m71105d0ddd031bae@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0610110623q365d3ffcw9ba9e11936d03a9d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
After reading a post in VCS comparison thread mentioning /etc example.
I think some of my patches might be useful for some users. They are
two patches, tp/gitlink~1 and tp/gitlink~2 in git-pclouds.git on
repo.or.cz.
The implementation is a bit differerent from what I proposed. The
.gitdir file (I named it .gitlink  though) contains an alternative
name for .git dir. It would be more obvious with the following
example:

The standard layout:

a/.git
a/file
a/b/.git
a/b/file

The new layout:

a/.git
a/.git-b (it is actually a/b/.git)
a/file
a/b/.gitlink (whose content is ".git-b")
a/b/file

With this I can move all .git directories to the top directory (or
just parent directories). In /etc example, it can create a less
cluttered directory structure. I do not submit these patches to git.
It needs more work IMO.
-- 
Duy