Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq3b3ruaqp.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <eu8vrb$r15$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Stupid question: why .gitlink, and not .git/link or so? This file is
>> not versionned, I don't think it should be in the working tree.
>
> It would be special-cased, as is .git directory not versioned, the
> same way .gitlink would be not versioned (not like .gitignore).

That's how I understand it, but why 2 special cases (.git and .gitlink) when you need one?

-- 
Matthieu

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