From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:50:19 GMT
Subject: Re: can I use multiple worktree in same git repo ?
Message-ID: <201107212050.20108.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110721182215.GA9505@kolya>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:17:57AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > Actually with git-new-workdir you can have multiple working
> > directories associated with single repository, by the way of symlinks.
> > 
> > Note however that if you intend to *work* in those workdirs, they
> > better correspond to different branches... or you can mess something
> > heavy.
> 
> It would be possible to use the .git-file feature here. Then symlinks are
> avoided and the solution is portable.

Actually it wouldn't.  Each new workdir has a separate HEAD and a
separate index; it is contents of .git that is symlinked, not .git
itself.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland