On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... snip ...
> > how is this "expire time" measured? relative to what? i've
> > looked under .git/worktrees/<wtname>, and i see a bunch of files
> > defining that worktree, but it's not clear how a worktree stores
> > the relevant time to be used for the determination of when a
> > worktree "expires".
>
> According to Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt:
>
> worktrees/<id>/gitdir::
> A text file containing the absolute path back to the .git file
> that points to here. This is used to check if the linked
> repository has been manually removed and there is no need to
> keep this directory any more. The mtime of this file should be
> updated every time the linked repository is accessed.
>
> So, the expire time is relative to the mtime of the 'gitdir' file for
> that worktree...
yup, that clears it up, thanks.
rday
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