Re: Multiple working trees with GIT ?

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Julian Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > > You might want to have a look at the git-new-workdir script in 
> > > contrib, it does basically the same thing.  It's been there for 
> > > about 10 months now. It was based on an email from Junio:
> > > 
> > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/41513/
> > 
> > FWIW I have a patch to do something like that in "git branch" itself.
> >
> > > However, there are some caveats about using this approach, basically 
> > > about the fact that there is nothing stopping you from updating refs 
> > > that are currently checked out in another directory and causing 
> > > yourself all sorts of pain ... the topic has cropped up a couple of 
> > > times on the list since the script was added.
> > 
> > I agree; maybe we should have a telltale file 
> > "refs/heads/<bla>.checkedout" which is heeded by "git checkout" and 
> > "git branch -d/-D", as well as update_ref() (should only update that 
> > ref when it HEAD points to it)?
> 
> Why not generalize this into HEAD.$branch (thus limiting to one checkout 
> per branch) or HEAD.$checkoutdir ?