On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > Brad Larson wrote: > >> At gittogether there was some talk about having .git be a file, not a >> folder, with contents pointing to the real .git directory. Similar to >> a symlink, but supported in Windows. > > It is called a .git file. See gitrepository-layout(5), v1.5.6-rc0~93^2~3 > (Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20), and the recent > rebase not handling core.worktree thread[1]. Thanks so much Jonathan. We were just listing the location of the folder, but prepending it with "gitdir: " fixed things. Thanks! Brad > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160488/focus=160567 > -- 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