Hi, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > > I live by new-workdir. I do everything with it. And today I > > > just spent over an hour sorting out cases where my many, many > > > workdirs have different refs than their base repositories, > > > because their packed-refs files are different. > > > Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. > > > > > > So we really need to make anyone that edits packed-refs (and maybe also > > > config) resolve the symlink and do the edit in the target directory. Then > > > we can consider adding this workdir thing > > > to core git. > > > > This is actually not limited to packed-refs file, but applies to other > > things as well. > > > > I have been wondering if something like this patch would be sufficient. The > > idea essentially is to take the lock on the link > > target when we try to take a lock on something that is a symlink > > pointing elsewhere. > (..snip..) > > While you guys are discussing this, please please keep in mind that there are > Windows users (/me raises his hand) out there that really really want this > too. So, please try to keep it light on the symlinks. Easy: use cygwin. Okay, a bit more seriously again: in the recent weeks, it seems that more and more Windows users are asking for features. Since I guess you are a developer (why else would you want to use git), IMHO it is your itch to scratch. Ciao, Dscho P.S.: Sorry if this came over as rude, but I am growing slightly annoyed by the expectation of so many that since it is Open Source, I should work for free. - 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
