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git-new-workdir for filesystems without links (e.g. FAT32)?

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PKPiotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki.news@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2011, 14:20 UTC
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Hi,

git-new-workdir requires soft links to work, so obviously it will fail if file system does not support them. Is there any other way for having multiple working dirs with one repository?

Since git-new-workdir just uses soft links it should be possible to implement it natively in git. Maybe there some patches for this?

I need it because I'm using FAT32 on my dual-boot computer to share data between windows and linux. 

Thanks,
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Piotr Krukowiecki
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