Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Why not using a symlink here ?
Suppose I wonder just that. grepping through setup.c for ".git file",
I find the function read_gitfile_gently() --- why was that added?
$ git log -Sread_gitfile_gently setup.c
commit b44ebb19e3234c5dffe9869ceac5408bb44c2e20
Author: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 20 23:13:13 2008 +0100
Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Hope that helps.
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