[PATCH] doc/git-worktree: mention "refs/rewritten" as per-worktree refs
- From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
- Date
- Oct 10, 2023, 11:01 UTC
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- <985ac850eb6e60ae76601acc8bfbcd56f99348b4.1696935657.git.ps@pks.im>
Some references are special in the context of worktrees as they are considered to be per-worktree instead of shared across all of the worktrees. Most importantly, this includes "refs/worktree/" that have explicitly been designed such that users can create per-woorktree refs. But there are also special references that have an associated meaning like "refs/bisect/", which is used to track state of git-bisect(1).
These special per-worktree references are documented in git-worktree(1), but one instance is missing. In a9be29c9817 (sequencer: make refs generated by the `label` command worktree-local, 2018-04-25), we have converted "refs/rewritten/" to be a per-worktree reference as well. These references are used by our sequencer infrastructure to generate labels for rebased commits. So in order to allow for multiple concurrent rebases to happen in different worktrees, these references need to be tracked per worktree.
We forgot to update our documentation to mention these new per-worktree references, which is fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> --- Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index a4fbf5e838..93d76f5d66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ rules and how to access refs of one worktree from another. In general, all pseudo refs are per-worktree and all refs starting with `refs/` are shared. Pseudo refs are ones like `HEAD` which are directly under `$GIT_DIR` instead of inside `$GIT_DIR/refs`. There are exceptions, -however: refs inside `refs/bisect` and `refs/worktree` are not shared. +however: refs inside `refs/bisect`, `refs/worktree` and `refs/rewritten` are +not shared. Refs that are per-worktree can still be accessed from another worktree via two special paths, `main-worktree` and `worktrees`. The former gives @@ -363,8 +364,8 @@ linked worktree `git rev-parse --git-path HEAD` returns `/path/other/test-next/.git/HEAD` or `/path/main/.git/HEAD`) while `git rev-parse --git-path refs/heads/master` uses `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` and returns `/path/main/.git/refs/heads/master`, -since refs are shared across all worktrees, except `refs/bisect` and -`refs/worktree`. +since refs are shared across all worktrees, except `refs/bisect`, +`refs/worktree` and `refs/rewritten`. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for more information. The rule of thumb is do not make any assumption about whether a path belongs to
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