From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:47:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070418174753.GC5913@xp.machine.xx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704180908360.2828@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:09:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:
> >
> > git-new-workdir creates a new working directory where everything
> > necessary, including .git/packed-refs, is symlinked to your master repo.
> > But git-pack-refs breaks the symlink, so you could accidentally loose some
> > refs. This fixes it to first dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a
> > symlink.
>
> Wouldn't it be nicer to instead make "git gc" *notice* the fact that we're
> in a workdir, and just "cd" to the main git repository instead?
>
> Linus
>
Don't think so. Because then all the low level tools aren't aware of this.
And restricting a WorkDir to use only porcelanish commands isn't what I
want. And teaching every tool about symklinked workdirs doesn't sound right
to me.
-Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-18 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-17 16:17 [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs Peter Baumann
2007-04-17 21:55 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 5:52 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 7:26 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 7:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 8:11 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 11:55 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 16:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 17:43 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 18:31 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 21:08 ` Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-19 5:35 ` [PATCH] Add test for symlinked .git/packed-refs Peter Baumann
2007-04-19 6:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 16:52 ` [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink Peter Baumann
2007-04-21 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 18:43 ` [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 10:28 ` [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink Peter Baumann
2007-04-18 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-18 17:47 ` Peter Baumann [this message]
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