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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> 2. Working dirs using this repo are in /usr/src/linux* and
> /usr/src/linux-test is one of them, currently (.git dir):
> lrwx 1      30 2007-10-09 00:55 config -> ~/scm/linux-2.6/config
> lrwx 1      35 2007-08-24 18:33 description -> ~/scm/linux-2.6/description
> -rw- 1     126 2008-02-01 21:39 FETCH_HEAD
> lrwx 1      19 2008-03-15 17:52 HEAD -> refs/heads/eelogger
> -rw- 1 2220597 2008-03-15 17:56 index
> drwx 2    4096 2008-03-15 17:57 info
> -rw- 1   21482 2008-03-15 17:57 info/refs
> lrwx 1      28 2007-08-24 18:33 logs -> ~/scm/linux-2.6/logs
> lrwx 1      31 2007-08-24 18:33 objects -> ~/scm/linux-2.6/objects
> -rw- 1      41 2008-03-15 17:56 ORIG_HEAD
> -rw- 1   17909 2008-03-15 17:56 packed-refs
> lrwx 1      28 2007-08-24 18:33 refs -> ~/scm/linux-2.6/refs

This is wrong.  How did you set this up initially?

If you are putting a work tree by symlinking contents of its .git
directory, info and packed-refs are alsy symlinked.  See how
contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir does this.