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Git repositories may be contained in a .git directory or a .git file
in the workdir hierarchy, but Atom only recognizes the directory format.
Teach Atom to recognize the filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link
used by default in many situations including, for example, submodules.
The .git file contains a relative or absolute path to the location of
the real git-dir, preceded by the 8-byte string "gitdir: ".
Here's a console log showing the normal creation of such a symbolic link.
/tmp $ git init --separate-git-dir foo.git bar
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/foo.git/
/tmp $ ls
/tmp $ bar foo.git
/tmp $ ls -la bar
drwxr-xr-x 2 hordp hordp 4096 Sep 18 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 hordp hordp 4096 Sep 18 15:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 hordp hordp 25 Sep 18 15:54 .git
/tmp $ ls foo.git
branches config description HEAD hooks info objects refs
/tmp $ cat bar/.git
gitdir: /tmp/foo.git
Fixes #8876
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