From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:37:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] worktree: link worktrees with relative paths Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Caleb White writes: >> existing repository", and another test that creates with the option >> to use relative and uses the worktree/repository without the option >> would simulate "how well existing versions of Git works when seeing >> a worktree made with the newer git with the relative option". > > I can already tell you that this particular case is not going to work > because existing versions of git expect the path to be absolute. Most > of the changes in this patch revolve around properly reading/handling > the relative paths, not writing the relative paths. If we are talking about making irreversible change to an existing repository, we may need to grab one extensions bit (cf. Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt and then refer also to Documentation/config/extensions.txt [*]) and flip it when we wrote a relative link to refer to an worktree and repository. [Footnote] * The repository-version document claims that any extensions invented must be registered there, but config/extensions.txt that came later ignored it and seems to have acquired a few more than the "master list". We should clean up the mess.