Re: can I use multiple worktree in same git repo ?

From: Sergio <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2011, 09:06 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20110722T105732-905@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <201107212050.20108.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:17:57AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > > Actually with git-new-workdir you can have multiple working
> > > directories associated with single repository, by the way of symlinks.
> > > 
> > > Note however that if you intend to *work* in those workdirs, they
> > > better correspond to different branches... or you can mess something
> > > heavy.
> > 
> > It would be possible to use the .git-file feature here. Then symlinks are
> > avoided and the solution is portable.
> 
> Actually it wouldn't.  Each new workdir has a separate HEAD and a
> separate index; it is contents of .git that is symlinked, not .git
> itself.
>

Is there any means to separate worktree info from the object repository? E.g., having a .git dir identical to that of a bare repo and a .git_workdir dir with the head, head logs, index and all what makes a nonbare repo different from a bare one? That might make it easier to transform a repo from bare to nonbare in addition to simplifying the logic of git-new-workdir.