Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir

> > > I live by new-workdir.  I do everything with it.  And today I
> > > just spent over an hour sorting out cases where my many, many
> > > workdirs have different refs than their base repositories,
> > > because their packed-refs files are different.
> > > Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
> > > 
> > > So we really need to make anyone that edits packed-refs (and maybe also
> > > config) resolve the symlink and do the edit in the target directory.  Then
> > > we can consider adding this workdir thing
> > >  to core git.
> > 
> > This is actually not limited to packed-refs file, but applies to other
> > things as well.
> > 
> > I have been wondering if something like this patch would be sufficient.  The
> > idea essentially is to take the lock on the link
> > target when we try to take a lock on something that is a symlink
> > pointing elsewhere.
> (..snip..)
> 
> While you guys are discussing this, please please keep in mind that there are
> Windows users (/me raises his hand) out there that really really want this
> too. So, please try to keep it light on the symlinks.