[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmYwE2LrTHAgbco1mEa_y8rGVqX7exIoxc"
 nickname="François"
 subject="Replace the gitdir by a symbolic link"
 date="2014-02-11T08:06:53Z"
 content="""
chadsgilbert proposed to replace the .git file by a symbolic link:

 <http://stackoverflow.com/a/18238326/1531323>

What do you think of this possibility? Is it perennial? Can \"git annex init\" do it automatically?

The [commit message](https://github.com/git/git/commit/69c305178) that introduces the change gives the impression that a symbolic link was a possibility.

Thanks a lot for git annex!
"""]]