Add platform-independent .git "symlink"

This patch allows .git to be a regular textfile containing the path of
the real git directory (prefixed with "gitdir: "), which can be useful on
platforms lacking support for real symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Lars Hjemli
2008-02-20 23:13:13 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 2a5fe25458
commit b44ebb19e3
5 changed files with 157 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ extern char *get_index_file(void);
extern char *get_graft_file(void);
extern int set_git_dir(const char *path);
extern const char *get_git_work_tree(void);
extern const char *read_gitfile_gently(const char *path);
#define ALTERNATE_DB_ENVIRONMENT "GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES"