From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:31:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: keeping remote repo checked out?
Message-ID: <7v1x0zicn8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.11.29.13.39.01.958465@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> writes:

> 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.