I just started to look at having multiple work trees, each working on a separate branch, using the same git repo. GIT_DIR/--git-dir seems to be what I am looking for but I wonder if there is a way to store the value of GIT_DIR/--git-dir in the working tree somehow? Jocke - 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