On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This "link" was a feature in early iterations of multiple worktree > functionality for some reason it was dropped [1]. Since nobody creates > this "link", there's no need to check it. > > This is mostly used to let the user moves a worktree manually [2]. If s/moves/move/ (Not worth a re-roll; perhaps Junio can tweak this when queuing.) > you move a worktree within the same file system, this hard link count > lets us know the worktree is still there even if we don't know where it > is. > > We support 'worktree move' now and don't need this anymore. > > [1] last appearance in v4 message-id: > 1393675983-3232-25-git-send-email-pclouds@xxxxxxxxx > and the reason in v5 was "revisit later", message-id: > 1394246900-31535-1-git-send-email-pclouds@xxxxxxxxx > [2] 23af91d102 (prune: strategies for linked checkouts - 2014-11-30) > > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
