From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink" Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <8c5c35580802020959v613b9e32v321e97f93f2af761@mail.gmail.com> <1201975757-13771-1-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com> <47A78104.9050909@nrlssc.navy.mil> <47A78CF9.6040001@nrlssc.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Lars Hjemli , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 04 23:20:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JM9gI-0002G0-Ch for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:20:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753815AbYBDWUR (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:20:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753692AbYBDWUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:20:16 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46723 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753490AbYBDWUP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:20:15 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Feb 2008 22:20:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 04 Feb 2008 23:20:13 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+cUY0I4P2c/ajF2HPlWu3XzNNBOWvEG6p8JMNWy9 UDpT7sO+dUMwKB X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <47A78CF9.6040001@nrlssc.navy.mil> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > > >> Have you thought about using git-clone instead? > > > > Briefly. But this is not about cloning the repository. It is about > > having an additional working directory for the current repository. > > I think that is true at the low level, but from a high level it feels > similar to me. > > [...] > > > I _want_ the original repository to know that there is another working > > directory. > > Yes, your ideas are much better than simply adding the functionality of > the git-new-workdir script (which is what I was planning on doing btw :) Somehow these two statements do not work together. Either you have a clone, or you accept that a new working directory is actually working on the _same_ repository. Ciao, Dscho