From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:56:51 GMT
Subject: Re: fixing workdirs
Message-ID: <AANLkTil1jhqfg-WsTq6g7tMhavG_CzJf01CBzXnd_nBx@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hl5pxt0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org> writes:
>> ... git checkout would check that no other workdir is currently "on
>> the same branch", and would refuse to checkout to a branch that is
>> already checkouted elsewhere.
>
> I am personally fine with this, but if there is no way to override this
> refusal it may break some people's existing workflow.  I dunno.

Perhaps it would be better to refuse to *update* a particular ref if
some other worktree has it checked out?  I don't think actually having
multiple trees checked out to the same branch is a problem, so much as
what happens when they start committing.

Have fun,

Avery