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Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] bisect per-worktree

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2015, 13:02 UTC
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> Either way, there's also the question of who should know how to find the
> worktree-specific references--the program that wants to access them, or
> should there be a secret invisible mapping that is done on lookup, and
> that knows the full list of references that want to be worktree-specific
> (for example, that in a linked worktree, "refs/bisect/*" should be
> silently redirected to "refs/worktree/<name>/bisect/*")?
>
> It's all a bit frightening, frankly.

I would think all work to make pluggable backends happen should allow us to do this kind of transparent mapping. We can add a new file-based backend with just this redirection, can't we? I haven't read the updated refs.c though, need to do it now..

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Duy
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Message 14 of 15 in “bisect per-worktree”
  1. 0/2 bisect per-worktreeDavid Turner, Jul 31, 2015
  2. 1/2 refs: workree-refs/* become per-worktreeDavid Turner, Jul 31, 2015
  3. 2/2 bisect: make bisection refs per-worktreeDavid Turner, Jul 31, 2015
  4. Michael HaggertyAug 1, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2015
  6. David TurnerAug 1, 2015
  7. Michael HaggertyAug 1, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2015
  9. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2015
  10. David TurnerAug 3, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2015
  12. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2015
  13. David TurnerAug 3, 2015
  14. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2015
  15. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2015

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