Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] git worktree (re)move

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2016, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kb21Ewm4Lnr87mpk-YdYiUaQUKtJQm+Voqq_4wfRExgYQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfumaf5lf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another way, as pointed out by j6t, is go with "move within filesystem
>> only", at least at the first step. Which is probably a good idea
>> anyway so we can concentrate on git-specific stuff before going to
>> minor and complicated copy/move details.
>
> Yup, that is a very sensible approach.

In case you decided to go another way than a plain rename, please make it easy to reuse (e.g. move_directory_safely exposed to the rest of the codebase). I'd find use for that in the series currently queued as:

  sb/submodule-intern-gitdir

which moves git directories of submodules around (from inside the submodule/.git to the superprojects .git/modules/<name>)

Thanks, Stefan