Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add multiple workdir support to branch/checkout

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Jay Soffian wrote:

> In my mind, we're trying to make new-workdir usable for non-advanced
> users.

I'd be happy already with making it comfortable for the advanced
users. :)

I think your patch goes in a right direction (using the shared
.git/config file as a way to negotiate ownership of branches).
Junio’s comments about it seeming sensible to

 - make this apply to other operations that clobber a branch
 - make the “[branch "master"] checkedout” configuration multi-valued
   if there is to be support for "git checkout -f" overriding this at
   all

ring true to me.  Making the value of this variable the path to the
.git dir or worktree (rather than an opaque string) seems like a very
good thing: it means that a future git could check if the directory
still exists and break the lock if someone has used “rm -fr”.

As for moving “git new-workdir” out of contrib, I believe another
prerequisite is sharing the HEAD reflog.

Just my two cents,
Jonathan