Re: [RFC] separate .git from working directory

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-10-12 00:41:03
On 10/11/06, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was thinking about this while reading subproject thread. In a simple
> case, I have a repo A located at ~/project-a and another repo B
> located at ~/project-a/some/dir/project-b. With this setup, command
> "find" and other directory-recursive commands will run horribly from
> ~/project-a when they go inside project-b/.git (no I don't want to
> repack -d everytime I want to find something).
> I propose to move project-b/.git outside and place a file, say
> .gitdir, in project-b directory. git-sh-setup and setup_git_directory

You can even leave the name as is: it is impossible to misunderstand
a file for directory (except on AIX). Or put the information in extended
attributes.
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