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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@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ static char *git_object_dir, *git_index_file, *git_refs_dir, *git_graft_file;
static void setup_git_env(void)
{
git_dir = getenv(GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
if (!git_dir)
git_dir = read_gitfile_gently(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
if (!git_dir)
git_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT;
git_object_dir = getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT);