From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:01:26 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803061800110.3941@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5kgieqy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> [On Hold]
> 
> * nd/worktree (Sun Mar 2 17:35:43 2008 +0700) 10 commits
>  - Additional tests to capture worktree special cases
>  - Documentation: update api-builtin and api-setup
>  - Make setup_git_directory() auto-setup worktree if found
>  - builtin-archive: mark unused prefix "unused_prefix"
>  - Completely move out worktree setup from
>    setup_git_directory_gently()
>  - http-push: Avoid calling setup_git_directory() twice
>  - Make setup_work_tree() return new prefix
>  - Make get_git_dir() and 'git rev-parse --git-dir' absolute path
>  - Make sure setup_git_directory is called before accessing
>    repository
>  - "git read-tree -m" and the like require worktree
> 
> Every time we touch work-tree stuff we seem to unstabilize; this round 
> seems more solid but I am still treading cautiously.  Not sure if we 
> want this for 1.5.5.

I think this needs a much closer look.  Being as large as the patch series 
is right now does not help at all.  And I am awfully short on time, 
_especially_ since I get sidetracked by things that are more fun, such as 
strbuf_vaddf().

Ciao,
Dscho