Re: Worktree "gitdir" file being mangled after upgrade to 2.7.0

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2016, 03:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D2Bz42kvBD1e=0oqxrYDry7_wCOy5Fi3oS-sGJxux4-w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9iglwf3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Erik Johnson <palehose@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Since upgrading to 2.7.0 last week, eventually I'll get to a point when
>> I run 'git worktree list' where several worktrees are incorrectly
>> reported as pointing to my main git checkout. Further analysis of the
>> files in $GIT_DIR/worktrees/worktree_name/ shows that the gitdir file
>> for the worktrees which display incorrectly contains ".git" instead of
>> what it should contain (i.e. "/path/to/worktree/.git".
>>
>> This was reported a couple days ago on Github:
>>
>> https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/650
>>
>> Since the audiences for the mailing list and Github don't overlap
>> completely, I figured I'd report it here to get this issue in front of
>> as many eyes as possible.
>
> Thanks for relaying.  Duy, Michael, I think this is your area?

The only place that a relative pat hcan be written is update_linked_girdir() unless i'm mistaken. That function is being deleted "soon" because it causes another problem

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Duy