From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:16:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot clone a linked working directory.
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BDrkrxO6f8SgqRjmLgSCwALqhO5hXEOo51v25=6NpwrA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+cck7FB6QPz1Pec11TPXxxAhwKR78K9swgsQjMrZPhKJzi_iw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Bjørnar Snoksrud <snoksrud@gmail.com> wrote:
> Summary:
> When creating a linked working directory with `git checkout --to`, you
> cannot clone from the local path. This works when cloning the main
> repository directory.
>
> I couldn't find anything the the documentation for `git checkout` that
> indicates that this shouldn't work.

I didn't think of this use case. If something works on the main
worktree then it should also work on linked checkouts. I think I see
the problem and will try to fix it in probably a few days (the "git
add -N" problem takes higher priority).
-- 
Duy