Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We will want to be able to hold the lockfile for `packed-refs` even > after we have activated the new values. So use a separate tempfile, > `packed-refs.new`, as a place to stage the new contents of the > `packed-refs` file. For now this is all done within > `commit_packed_refs()`, but that will change shortly. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- The layout created by "contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir" will be broken by this line of change. "git worktree" is supposed to know that refs/packed-refs is a shared thing and lives in common-dir, so it shouldn't be affected. Do we care about the ancient layout that used symlinks to emulate the more modern worktree one?