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On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:22 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 
> I don't see any contradiction.
> 
> Light checkouts would have an almost empty .git (it still needs an
> index, and its own head anyway) and use the .git of the main repo for
> everything else.
> 

Josef Weidendorfer tried to implement this before, and he concluded that
having a _text file_ .git, instead of a directory, would be a good way
to distinguish .gitlinked checkouts from normal checkouts.

As far as .git/link, that would seem to work better.  As long as there
is a sanity check to make sure that you don't manage to mix things up,
it might be fine.

-Eric