From: Piotr Krukowiecki Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:19:46 GMT Subject: Re: git-new-workdir for filesystems without links (e.g. FAT32)? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110206191459.GA17939@elie> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Piotr, > > Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > >> git-new-workdir requires soft links to work, so obviously it will fail if file >> system does not support them. Is there any other way for having multiple working >> dirs with one repository? > > I assume you mean a way to share refs between repositories without > using symlinks?  Then alas, that is not implemented, though there > is some interest.  See [1] for details. [...] > If on the other hand you just want to share objects (not refs) between > repositories, the GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY environment variable might > help. I need several working directories (for different branches). I wanted to use git-new-workdir because, as I understand, I could do 'git svn fetch' only once and then 'git rebase' for each working dir. So the only reason was performance (network and disk). I don't know if sharing objects is enough. If I understand correctly, if a fetch introduces e.g. new branches, then only one working directory will have information about them? -- Piotrek