On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:55:31PM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Actually, I'd almost say put it into .git/config, e.g.: > > > > mkdir .git > > cat >.git/config <<EOF > > [core] > > repositoryversion = 0 > > filemode = true > > link = /path/to/source > > EOF > > > > as then the index and HEAD file can both be stored in .git, just > > like with the non-gitlink case. > > This is not usable at least for me as it does not allow sharing > the .git/config file across checkouts. Can't you take linked .git/config and override it with stuff from local .git/config in that case? Don't replace, supraposition. Take somewhat contrived example of having checkout on a FAT partition linking to a repository on a sane filesystem (are you permanently short on disk space on your /home partition too, except for about two months right after you double your disk capacity? :). You might want to disable core.fileMode there. Maybe this will not ever happen in real world and we might not care. Maybe not... -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - 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