From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:56:59 GMT
Subject: Re: update_linked_gitdir writes relative path to .git/worktrees/<id>/gitdir
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D-dk7aHttHxeGYPuqRUQFx40AJyQQ39gVQvmM2Ttr1pA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1454893478.2511.5.camel@mattmccutchen.net>

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 15:56 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:
>>
>> > I noticed that when update_linked_gitdir chooses to update
>> > .git/worktrees/<id>/gitdir, the path it writes is relative, at
>> > least
>> > under some circumstances.  This contradicts the gitrepository-
>> > layout
>> > man page, which says:
>>
>> Duy, is it safe to say that the fix has already been cooking in
>> 'next' as nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually topic,
>
> Yes, looks like that topic removes the buggy functionality.

I'm also pretty sure it's update_linked_gitdir() that writes relative
path. So yes nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually should "fix" it. We
don't have a way to recover broken gitdir files though.
-- 
Duy