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diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index 1a2ef4c150..949cd8a31e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -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 |