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doc: make the gitfile syntax easier to discover

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Signed-off-by: Marcel Krause <mk+copyleft@pimpmybyte.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Marcel Krause 2023-11-28 07:55:58 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
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@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ A Git repository comes in two different flavours:
*Note*: Also you can have a plain text file `.git` at the root of
your working tree, containing `gitdir: <path>` to point at the real
directory that has the repository. This mechanism is often used for
directory that has the repository.
This mechanism is called a 'gitfile' and is usually managed via the
`git submodule` and `git worktree` commands. It is often used for
a working tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the
containing superproject to `git checkout` a branch that does not
have the submodule. The `checkout` has to remove the entire

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Documentation/glossary-content.txt
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@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ current branch integrates with) obviously do not work, as there is no
[[def_gitfile]]gitfile::
A plain file `.git` at the root of a working tree that
points at the directory that is the real repository.
For proper use see linkgit:git-worktree[1] or linkgit:git-submodule[1].
For syntax see linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
[[def_grafts]]grafts::
Grafts enables two otherwise different lines of development to be joined