VCS comparison table

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On 10/17/06, Jakub Narebski <jnareb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >> About "checkouts", i.e. working directories with repository elsewhere:
> >> you can use GIT_DIR environmental variable or "git --git-dir" option,
> >> or symlinks, and if Nguyen Thai Ngoc D proposal to have .gitdir/.git
> >> "symref"-like file to point to repository passes, we can use that.
> >
> > It sounds like the .gitdir/.git proposal would give Git "checkouts", by
> > our meaning of the term.
>
> Actually it is better to work with clone of repository, perhaps either
> symlinking object database, or by alternates mechanism (with alternates
> repositories would share old history, but gather new independetly
> I think).
I agree. Each Git repository is designed to work with one working
directory. Using .gitdir/.git proposal, you are likely to checkout two
working directories from one repo.
-- 
Duy