On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:19:38AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > > > Vít Novotný <wit...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> Is this a bug, or is the ability to symlink `.git` just a happy > >> coincidence? > > > > It has never been supported. > > Oops, hit "send" too early. > > We have support for a "gitdir:" facility that would work even on a > filesystem that cannot do symlinks (see gitrepository-layout(5)), > and both the higher-level submodule Porcelain and the more recent > "worktree" experimental code do use it. >
That sounds ideal, thank you for letting me know. Still, I believe that well-behaved applications should be indifferent to symlinks, unless the distinction is significant. Would there be any objections, if I submitted a patch / series of patches that would add proper symlink support? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
