Re: .git as file pointing to directory?

Brad Larson [off-list ref] writes:

Sorry if this is obvious, I can't figure out what term to search for.

At gittogether there was some talk about having .git be a file, not a
folder, with contents pointing to the real .git directory.  Similar to
a symlink, but supported in Windows.  Is there a specific name for
this feature?  Where can I find more details?  Which version of git
introduced this?

It has been discussed under the name "gitlink", which was
unfortunately also used for something else in the subtree
implementation, but AFAIK, it has never been implemented.

The closest equivalent is git-new-workdir, but it relies on symlinks,
and shares a bit more than it should with the other repository (i.e.
if you checkout the same branch is two workdirs, you're doomed).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Am 04.11.2010 19:32, schrieb Matthieu Moy:

Brad Larson [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Sorry if this is obvious, I can't figure out what term to search for.

At gittogether there was some talk about having .git be a file, not a
folder, with contents pointing to the real .git directory.  Similar to
a symlink, but supported in Windows.  Is there a specific name for
this feature?  Where can I find more details?  Which version of git
introduced this?

It has been discussed under the name "gitlink", which was
unfortunately also used for something else in the subtree
implementation, but AFAIK, it has never been implemented.

Hmm, AFAIK gitlinks are already in heavy use for submodule entries ...