Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2007, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd4yigmla.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241002410.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> While you guys are discussing this, please please keep in mind that there are
>> Windows users (/me raises his hand) out there that really really want this
>> too. So, please try to keep it light on the symlinks.
>
> Easy: use cygwin.
>
> Okay, a bit more seriously again: in the recent weeks, it seems that more 
> and more Windows users are asking for features.  Since I guess you are a 
> developer (why else would you want to use git), IMHO it is your itch to 
> scratch.

I do not know this is an appropriate itch to scratch for a Windows developer to begin with. The new-workdir setting *is* about symlinked .git/ metainfo space. If somebody wants to work on a filesystem without symlink, he should not be using new-workdir but something else. E.g. GIT_DIR + GIT_WORK_TREE, or perhaps GIT_DIR + core.worktree comes to mind.