Re: contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir broken in 1.7.10 after introducing gitfiles

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Am 22.04.2012 06:41, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> As you analyzed correctly, core.worktree lets a GIT_DIR to declare that
>> there is a single working tree associated with it. It fundamentally is
>> incompatible with new-workdir, which is a hack to let more than one
>> working tree associated with a single GIT_DIR.
>>
>> I however do not think a simplistic "unset core.worktree" is a good
>> suggestion, though, as we do not know why the original repository has
>> that variable set pointing at somewhere.  Blindly removing it will break
>> the use of the original repository.  If somebody _really_ wants to use
>> new-workdir for whatever reason in such a setting, I would imagine that
>> doing something like this:
>> ...
>> may work.
> 
> I am too lazy to try it out myself, but a hack something along the line
> of the attached patch _might_ turn out to work well.

A quick test worked just fine. Looks like you fixed git-new-workdir to
be usable with the new gitfile submodules ;-)
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