Re: man page for "git-worktree" is a bit confusing WRT "prune"

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Nov 14, 2017, 08:47 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR2W2zKcjLYjd1E4jhMkad3O2ioncCZhkExGopxa_0_xg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

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> >   how is this "expire time" measured? relative to what? i've
> > looked under .git/worktrees/<wtname>, and i see a bunch of files
> > defining that worktree, but it's not clear how a worktree stores
> > the relevant time to be used for the determination of when a
> > worktree "expires".
>
> According to Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt:
>
>     worktrees/<id>/gitdir::
>         A text file containing the absolute path back to the .git file
>         that points to here. This is used to check if the linked
>         repository has been manually removed and there is no need to
>         keep this directory any more. The mtime of this file should be
>         updated every time the linked repository is accessed.
>
> So, the expire time is relative to the mtime of the 'gitdir' file for
> that worktree...

  yup, that clears it up, thanks.

rday

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