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.\" Title: gitrepository-layout
.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author]
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 2023-12-18
+.\" Date: 2023-12-20
.\" Manual: Git Manual
-.\" Source: Git 2.43.0.121.g624eb90fa8
+.\" Source: Git 2.43.0.174.g055bb6e996
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "GITREPOSITORY\-LAYOUT" "5" "2023\-12\-18" "Git 2\&.43\&.0\&.121\&.g624eb9" "Git Manual"
+.TH "GITREPOSITORY\-LAYOUT" "5" "2023\-12\-20" "Git 2\&.43\&.0\&.174\&.g055bb6" "Git Manual"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ directory that is a
repository (i\&.e\&. without its own working tree), that is typically used for exchanging histories with others by pushing into it and fetching from it\&.
.RE
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-\fBNote\fR: Also you can have a plain text file \fB\&.git\fR at the root of your working tree, containing \fBgitdir: <path>\fR to point at the real directory that has the repository\&. This mechanism is often used for a working tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the containing superproject to \fBgit checkout\fR a branch that does not have the submodule\&. The \fBcheckout\fR has to remove the entire submodule working tree, without losing the submodule repository\&.
+\fBNote\fR: Also you can have a plain text file \fB\&.git\fR at the root of your working tree, containing \fBgitdir: <path>\fR to point at the real directory that has the repository\&. This mechanism is called a \fIgitfile\fR and is usually managed via the \fBgit submodule\fR and \fBgit worktree\fR commands\&. It is often used for a working tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the containing superproject to \fBgit checkout\fR a branch that does not have the submodule\&. The \fBcheckout\fR has to remove the entire submodule working tree, without losing the submodule repository\&.
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These things may exist in a Git repository\&.
.PP