Matthieu Moy wrote: > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Matthieu Moy wrote: >> >>> Stupid question: why .gitlink, and not .git/link or so? This file is >>> not versionned, I don't think it should be in the working tree. >> >> It would be special-cased, as is .git directory not versioned, the >> same way .gitlink would be not versioned (not like .gitignore). > > That's how I understand it, but why 2 special cases (.git and > .gitlink) when you need one? Well, in the first proposal we didn't though about idea of having lightweight checkout .git/ directory (with .git/link, or core.link in .git/config) to have only parts of it, perhaps overriding main files. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - 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