Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > > If you were going to avoid symlinks, then probably the cleanest way would be
> > > to have an explict way to point at the actual repo - rather than making the
> > > working look like a repo if you squint hard enough.  Which sounds rather like
> > > it would be an extension to GIT_DIR + GIT_WORK_TREE.
> > 
> > Almost.  .git/{config,HEAD} are not shared.
> 
> .git/index, too. And for .git/config, it would probably be better to merge the
> two config's (the one from "realGitDir" with 2nd priority).

I blame it on me being tired.  .git/config _is_ shared, and I meant to 
write "index" instead of "config" there.  Not really a typo, is it?

> > So it would be some extension  
> > that is triggered by something like
> > 
> > 	[core]
> > 		realGitDir = /bla/bla/.git/
> 
> That is more or less almost exacty the last agreement about how to
> implement the lightweight checkouts, a few months ago.

Oh?  I saw no code...  To me it is not an agreement, if no code comes out 
of it.

Ciao,
Dscho