Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

Eric Lesh [off-list ref] writes:

.gitlink is for a lightweight checkout of a branch into a separate
directory on the local filesystem.

I think it's a pitty to restrict yourself to _local_ filesystem. There
are tons of cases where you have a fast, non-NFS, access to a machine
and would like to host your repository there.

That said, I suppose removing this restriction moves the solution from
the category "quick and efficient hack" to something much harder.

A .gitlink'ed checkout has its own index+HEAD, but otherwise refers
back to the main repository for objects, refs, etc.

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.

-- 
Matthieu