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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Me either.

What I thought of after writing that was that core.link should
also imply reading ${core.link}/config before .git/config, so that
the repository config can override the master repository, but the
master repository provides the bulk of the configuration.

-- 
Shawn.