Git doesn't litter hidden folders throughout the working copy like svn does,
instead it simply keeps one .git folder in the root path of the repo. If
you perform commands in a subpath, git just traverses upwards till it hits a
path with a .git folder, or can't go any further.
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Jeenu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to migrate from SVN to GIT. I know that SVN creates
> its .svn directory in every directory it tracks. However, I find that
> GIT doesn't do so, but still I'm able to do some git operations in the
> sub-directories. I'm wondering how GIT locates the .git directory
> upward the working directory. Aplogies if this mentioned in the docs;
> I couldn't find that either.
>
> Thanks
> :J
>
> >
>
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