Re: [PATCH] Re: keeping remote repo checked out?
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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- Nov 29, 2005, 17:31 UTC
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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:
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> Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> When everything goes well, the daemon goes to treeP and pulls >> from treeR's master into "deploy", which is checked out. > > Why do you need a separate tree for that? -EOVERKILL.
Yes that is overkill, but treeR is used for merge and the scheme allows that merge to be real merge not just fast forwards --- you need a checked out tree for that. We can use multiple checked out tree sharing the same .git/ directory with separate index files instead.