Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:55:31PM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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...

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