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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> By the way, why should it be $GIT_DIR/workdir when it appears
> everybody is putting things in $GIT_DIR/config?  Shouldn't it be
> something like:
> 
> 	[core]
>         	worktree = "/path/to/the/working/tree"

That's right.  When I wrote the code I first had only support for a
directory in $GIT_DIR/workdir (using a symlink) and added a file after
that.  Using a symlink is still easily possible with core.worktree =
workdir.