# [git-new-workdir RFC] Backlinking $workdir/logs/HEAD to $GIT_DIR/logs/workdir? 2 messages from 2008-12-27 to 2008-12-27. Participants: Adeodato Simó, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16883 ## Adeodato Simó, 2008-12-27 12:15 Subject: [git-new-workdir RFC] Backlinking $workdir/logs/HEAD to $GIT_DIR/logs/workdir? Message-ID: <20081227121526.GA12120@chistera.yi.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081227121526.GA12120%40chistera.yi.org ``` Hello, I use git new-workdir for some of my projects. Apart from the usual caveat "don't checkout the same branch twice", I found another small issue, surely known: the reflog for HEAD in the workidirs does not exist in the source git repo, hence git-gc will happily prune what it believes to be dangling commits. Would it be, perhaps, be okay to create a logs/workdir//HEAD symlink pointing to $workdir/logs/HEAD, so that this does not happen? Comments welcome. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Niza - Parasol ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-12-27 17:26 Subject: Re: [git-new-workdir RFC] Backlinking $workdir/logs/HEAD to $GIT_DIR/logs/workdir? Message-ID: <20081227172607.GA22075@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081227172607.GA22075%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <20081227121526.GA12120@chistera.yi.org> ``` Adeodato Simó wrote: > I use git new-workdir for some of my projects. Apart from the usual > caveat "don't checkout the same branch twice", I found another small > issue, surely known: the reflog for HEAD in the workidirs does not exist > in the source git repo, hence git-gc will happily prune what it believes > to be dangling commits. > > Would it be, perhaps, be okay to create a logs/workdir//HEAD > symlink pointing to $workdir/logs/HEAD, so that this does not happen? You also need to link the ref. A log is only scanned if the ref by the same name is scanned. So you'd need to create a refs/workdir//HEAD in the parent repository. Using a symlink to point to the HEAD file from the workdir might just work. -- Shawn. ```