Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Lesh <eclesh@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:40:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327034059.GJ4489@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3b3t3uws.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

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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