Re: [PATCH] pack-refs: dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a symlink

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:09:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Peter Baumann wrote:

quoted

git-new-workdir creates a new working directory where everything
necessary, including .git/packed-refs, is symlinked to your master repo.
But git-pack-refs breaks the symlink, so you could accidentally loose some
refs. This fixes it to first dereference .git/packed-refs if it is a
symlink.

Wouldn't it be nicer to instead make "git gc" *notice* the fact that we're 
in a workdir, and just "cd" to the main git repository instead?

		Linus

Don't think so. Because then all the low level tools aren't aware of this.
And restricting a WorkDir to use only porcelanish commands isn't what I
want. And teaching every tool about symklinked workdirs doesn't sound right
to me.

-Peter