Re: [PATCH] Add platform-independent .git "symlink"
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Feb 4, 2008, 22:19 UTC
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- <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802042218280.8543@racer.site>
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- <47A78CF9.6040001@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Hi,
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brandon Casey wrote: > > >> Have you thought about using git-clone instead? > > > > Briefly. But this is not about cloning the repository. It is about > > having an additional working directory for the current repository. > > I think that is true at the low level, but from a high level it feels > similar to me. > > [...] > > > I _want_ the original repository to know that there is another working > > directory. > > Yes, your ideas are much better than simply adding the functionality of > the git-new-workdir script (which is what I was planning on doing btw :)
Somehow these two statements do not work together. Either you have a clone, or you accept that a new working directory is actually working on the _same_ repository.
Ciao, Dscho