From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: .gitlink for Summer of Code Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:20:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1174825838.12540.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 25 17:21:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVUWl-0005qx-0B for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:21:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751555AbXCYPUv (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:20:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751570AbXCYPUu (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:20:50 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:39432 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751473AbXCYPUt (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:20:49 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2PFKckE000588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from olympe.imag.fr ([129.88.43.60]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1HVUWM-0000s7-8r for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:20:38 +0200 Received: from moy by olympe.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.50) id 1HVUWM-0006BW-6N for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:20:38 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1174825838.12540.5.camel@localhost> (Eric Lesh's message of "Sun\, 25 Mar 2007 05\:30\:38 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:20:38 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Lesh writes: > .gitlink is for a lightweight checkout of a branch into a separate > directory on the local filesystem. I think it's a pitty to restrict yourself to _local_ filesystem. There are tons of cases where you have a fast, non-NFS, access to a machine and would like to host your repository there. That said, I suppose removing this restriction moves the solution from the category "quick and efficient hack" to something much harder. > A .gitlink'ed checkout has its own index+HEAD, but otherwise refers > back to the main repository for objects, refs, etc. Stupid question: why .gitlink, and not .git/link or so? This file is not versionned, I don't think it should be in the working tree. -- Matthieu