-----Original Message----- On Tue, October-27-15 6:23 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: >On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote: >> When a ".git" file points to another repo, a ".git/gitdir" file is >> created in that repo. >> >> For example, running >> >> $ mkdir repo-a repo-b >> $ cd repo-a >> $ git init >> $ cd ../repo-b >> $ echo "gitdir: ../repo-a/.git" > .git >> $ git status >> >> results in a file "repo-a/.git/gitdir" that contains >> >> $ cat repo-a/.git/gitdir >> .git >> >> I don't see this file mentioned in the gitrepository-layout manpage, >> and my searches haven't turned up any information on it. What's the >> purpose of ".git/gitdir"? Are there cases where it will contain >> something other than ".git"? > >It's designed for submodules to work IIUC. > >Back in the day each git submodule had its own .git directory keeping its >local >objects.
>Nowadays the repository of submodule <name> is kept in the superprojects >>.git/modules/<name> directory. Slightly OT: Is there any way of avoiding having that file in the first place? I'm hoping to have a git repository in a normal file system (Posix) and a working area in a rather less-than-normal one where dots in file names are bad (actually a dot is a separator). Cheers, Randall -- 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
