Re: [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:17:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Peter Baumann [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Recursively dereferencing the symbolic link by hand to a limit
to avoid infinite recursion (error out when we reach the limit)
would be a more elaborate solution that probably is the right
thing to do.

I thought about the case where packed-refs is a symlink to another symlink
and then decided that it's not worth to implement this because a workdir
should be linked to a _repo_ and not another workdir.

That's incredibly weak, as the initial motivation of this patch
is that you did not want to say "you should run gc only in the
_repo_ not in workdir".

Yes. That's my motivation and it works right now

	git init a
	<hack, hack, hack,>
	git commit -a

	git-new-workdir a b 	# allowed
	git-new-workdir a c	# allowed

	git-new-workdir b d	# NOT ALLOWED

The user should only create new work dirs which refere to the repo and not
to another workdir.

But *iff* thats the only point for keeping my patch out I'll fix it, but
not tonight. (Leaving now ...)

-Peter