Re: mtimes of working files

> I would like, if git could have something like "checkouts". The idea is, that
> a checkout would contain the working tree, .git/HEAD saying what revision it
> is at and .git/index and everything else would be linked from the repository
> it is checked out from. That would allow you to have different branches
> checked out at different places, while not only sharing all the data, but
> also all of them available in all the checkouts and commands like pull
> updating it in all of them.
>
> It would be IMHO possible to symlink all the stuff in .git except HEAD and
> index, except for one problem. This is if you have two checkouts from the
> same branch and check out of them, the other one needs to know, that it's
> head should now be detached to stay where it was.