From: Julian Phillips Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:36:00 GMT Subject: Re: mtimes of working files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070714222221.GB3678@efreet.light.src> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Jan Hudec wrote: > 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. You basically just described what the git-new-workdir script in contrib/workdir does ... it doesn't address the issue of reference updating. -- Julian --- Most people's favorite way to end a game is by winning.