Re: Reverting the whole index-base series

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 15, 2007, 23:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcrh1a2w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704151632140.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >
>> > But no, I wasn't following that series, so I probably totally 
>> > misunderstood what you were going after..
>> 
>> Could be.
>> 
>> The issue in short was about:
>> 
>> 	$ git checkout $branch
>> 
>> At this point you think your HEAD is at $branch head, and you
>> are working towards building a commit that has that commit as
>> one of the parents.
>> 
>> Then a gremlin updates the commit HEAD points at.
>
> Ahh, ok. I was kind of expecting that you'd actually do something at 
> "receive-pack" time instead, not at the next commit. That would also solve 
> it - just have an option saying "update the working tree when receiving".

I specifically did not want to do that, as it would break existing workflow of pushing into a live repository, knowing the branch might be checked out at the remote.

Also, the case of multiple working trees sharing the same refs/ namespace cannot be solved by trapping receive-pack alone.