hoi :) On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:38:08AM -0700, Eric Lesh wrote: > > 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. but that does not allow for per-checkout HEAD and index. I don't see any reason for providing any sort for "gitlink" which also uses HEAD and index from the linked location -- then you could use a simple symlink, too. So having an almost empty .git directory and reusing parts from another .git directory makes a lot of sense to me. -- Martin Waitz
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