On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:22 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > I don't see any contradiction. > > Light checkouts would have an almost empty .git (it still needs an > index, and its own head anyway) and use the .git of the main repo for > everything else. > Josef Weidendorfer tried to implement this before, and he concluded that having a _text file_ .git, instead of a directory, would be a good way to distinguish .gitlinked checkouts from normal checkouts. As far as .git/link, that would seem to work better. As long as there is a sanity check to make sure that you don't manage to mix things up, it might be fine. -Eric - 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