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From: Mike Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Kyle Meyer" <kyle@kyleam.com>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: What's the ".git/gitdir" file?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:26:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANoM8SWDHyS1P=o1FwZUnE4OVUhhFS+-dFfgPQPE-zeHtGAp3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpozzncs0.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:
>
>> When a ".git" file points to another repo, a ".git/gitdir" file is
>> created in that repo.
>>
>> For example, running
>>
>>     $ mkdir repo-a repo-b
>>     $ cd repo-a
>>     $ git init
>>     $ cd ../repo-b
>>     $ echo "gitdir: ../repo-a/.git" > .git
>>     $ git status
>>
>> results in a file "repo-a/.git/gitdir" that contains
>>
>>     $ cat repo-a/.git/gitdir
>>     .git
>
> Sounds like a bug in the recently added "worktree" stuff.  Perhaps
> update_linked_gitdir() tweaked by 82fde87f (setup: update the right
> file in multiple checkouts, 2015-08-25) is misbehaving?

I noticed that as I was working on the worktree list command that my
linked worktree gitdir files were being clobbered to '.git'.  I
attributed it to my work, but now that you mention it, I think it has
happened with the 2.6.1 release as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 22:04 What's the ".git/gitdir" file? Kyle Meyer
2015-10-27 22:22 ` Stefan Beller
2015-10-27 22:42   ` Randall S. Becker
2015-10-27 22:54     ` Stefan Beller
2015-10-27 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-27 23:26   ` Mike Rappazzo [this message]
2015-10-28 16:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-11-02 19:08       ` [PATCH] setup: do not create $X/gitdir unnecessarily when accessing git file $X Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-11-02 20:01         ` Eric Sunshine
2015-11-02 20:35         ` Jeff King
2015-11-02 20:51           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-11-02 20:52             ` Jeff King
2015-11-03  5:48             ` Duy Nguyen
2015-11-03 19:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-27  3:43                 ` [PATCH] worktree: stop supporting moving worktrees manually Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-12-28  6:22                   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-12-29 13:55                     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-12-31  5:59                       ` Eric Sunshine

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