From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:35:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] refs/files: skip creation of "refs/{heads,tags}" for worktrees
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRWCFdVd_+By2T-sP58u22OcgDQogSS0UP5ZYYf2K5W_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3cf6ceb274d20ce76d0be65e4362a33579627052.1703754513.git.ps@pks.im>

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 5:16 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> The files ref backend will create both "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" in
> the Git directory. While this logic makes sense for normal repositories,
> it does not fo worktrees because those refs are "common" refs that would
> always be contained in the main repository's ref database.

s/fo/for/

(not worth a reroll)

> Introduce a new flag telling the backend that it is expected to create a
> per-worktree ref database and skip creation of these dirs in the files
> backend when the flag is set. No other backends (currently) need
> worktree-specific logic, so this is the only required change to start
> creating per-worktree ref databases via `refs_init_db()`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>