On 10/17/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html