# Re: \[PATCH v7 22/31\] checkout: support checking out into a new working directory

- From: Eric Sunshine \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 23:01:58 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7637887
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7636417/t.md

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On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
[ref] wrote:
> "git checkout --to" sets up a new working directory with a .git file
> pointing to $GIT_DIR/repos/<id>. It then executes "git checkout" again
> on the new worktree with the same arguments except "--to" is taken
> out. The second checkout execution, which is not contaminated with any
> info from the current repository, will actually check out and
> everything that normal "git checkout" does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <redacted>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> index 0f341fc..543d874 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
> @@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ modules::
>         directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and
>         "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/modules" will be used instead.
>
> +repos::
> +       Contains worktree specific information of linked
> +       checkouts. Each subdirectory contains the worktree-related
> +       part of a linked checkout. This directory is ignored

s/ignored/ignored if/

> +       $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/repos" will be
> +       used instead.
> +
>  SEE ALSO
>  --------
>  linkgit:git-init[1],
```