From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 19:43:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/POC 2/7] Add new environment variable $GIT_SUPER_DIR
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DG0yx0J6tnAT-BsHsArCRA2akK-txWv5ee6k4pxPpixQ@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> The exception list could be equally long (most of them are *_HEAD).
> .git is also used for temporary files with mkstemp, but I think that's
> safe for sharing. What could break is when people add a new local
> *_HEAD and forget to update the exception list.

Sensible; it may be worth having the above to describe why we choose
to go that "share only the selected ones" route in one of the log
message and/or in-code comment.

Thanks.