From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:17:43 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs Message-ID: <7vlkgph7i0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20070418174350.GB5913@xp.machine.xx> Peter Baumann writes: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> Recursively dereferencing the symbolic link by hand to a limit >> to avoid infinite recursion (error out when we reach the limit) >> would be a more elaborate solution that probably is the right >> thing to do. >> > I thought about the case where packed-refs is a symlink to another symlink > and then decided that it's not worth to implement this because a workdir > should be linked to a _repo_ and not another workdir. That's incredibly weak, as the initial motivation of this patch is that you did not want to say "you should run gc only in the _repo_ not in workdir".