First please shout if this is a known feature :-) I think separating the .git directory from its working tree could increase the safety of the data to one more level higher. We might have a git variable set to specify (a shared place) where to put the .git directories (or the data inside it), then use "/path/to/working/tree" as (or the seed to calculate) a hash key to map from the (.git directory in the) shared place to the working tree directory. Or we may have just a few data (that can be re-created) stored in the .git directory along with the working tree, and most of the revision history stored in the shared place. -- 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