On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Peter Baumann wrote: > > git-new-workdir creates a new working directory where everything > necessary, including .git/packed-refs, is symlinked to your master repo. > But git-pack-refs breaks the symlink, so you could accidentally loose some > refs. This fixes it to first dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a > symlink. Wouldn't it be nicer to instead make "git gc" *notice* the fact that we're in a workdir, and just "cd" to the main git repository instead? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html