Re: Bootstrapping into git, commit gripes at me

> >>>>> "MS" == Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
> 
> MS> Does this preclude symlinking .git?  I'd like to keep one .git which
> MS> is mirrored from the net and allow for more than one working
> MS> directory.
> 
> I think people typically do this by symlinking .git/objects, not
> .git/ itself.
> 
> Presumably the reason you would want to have more than one
> working tree is so that you can keep more than one topic of
> development, one for each working tree, and make commits
> independently, right?  Which commit is the latest in each work
> tree is, unsurprisingly, stored in .git/refs/heads/master file
> in each work tree, so usually you would _not_ want to share
> things other than .git/objects/ under .git/ directory across
> work trees.
> 
> One major downside of this, which I was burned once myself
> (which is the reason for me to stop doing it), is that
> git-fsck-cache and git-prune-script would not know anything
> about the objects in the shared .git/objects reachable from
> other work trees, and can happily garbage collect objects
> necessary for other work trees.