From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:19:38 GMT
Subject: Re: `.git` symlink makes `git submodule add` fail
Message-ID: <xmqq60xtvlj9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqio1tvlzu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Vít Novotný <witiko@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is this a bug, or is the ability to symlink `.git` just a happy coincidence?
>
> It has never been supported.

Oops, hit "send" too early.

We have support for a "gitdir:" facility that would work even on a
filesystem that cannot do symlinks (see gitrepository-layout(5)),
and both the higher-level submodule Porcelain and the more recent
"worktree" experimental code do use it.