On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Julian Phillips wrote: > > > You might want to have a look at the git-new-workdir script in contrib, > > it does basically the same thing. It's been there for about 10 months > > now. It was based on an email from Junio: > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/41513/ > > FWIW I have a patch to do something like that in "git branch" itself. > > > However, there are some caveats about using this approach, basically > > about the fact that there is nothing stopping you from updating refs > > that are currently checked out in another directory and causing yourself > > all sorts of pain ... the topic has cropped up a couple of times on the > > list since the script was added. > > I agree; maybe we should have a telltale file > "refs/heads/<bla>.checkedout" which is heeded by "git checkout" and "git > branch -d/-D", as well as update_ref() (should only update that ref when > it HEAD points to it)? Why not generalize this into HEAD.$branch (thus limiting to one checkout per branch) or HEAD.$checkoutdir ? Best regards, Willy - 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
