From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Kazuki Yamaguchi <k@rhe.jp>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] refs: add a new function set_worktree_head_symref
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:23:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459218192.2976.4.camel@twopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4mbqze65.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 10:48 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kazuki Yamaguchi <k@rhe.jp> writes:
>
> > Add a new function set_worktree_head_symref, to update HEAD symref
> > for
> > the specified worktree.
> >
> > To update HEAD of a linked working tree,
> > create_symref("worktrees/$work_tree/HEAD", "refs/heads/$branch",
> > msg)
> > could be used. However when it comes to updating HEAD of the main
> > working tree, it is unusable because it uses $GIT_DIR for
> > worktree-specific symrefs (HEAD).
> >
> > The new function takes git_dir (real directory) as an argument, and
> > updates HEAD of the working tree. This function will be used when
> > renaming a branch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kazuki Yamaguchi <k@rhe.jp>
> > ---
>
> I suspect that this helper function should be in the common layer
> (refs.c) to be redirected to specific backend(s).
>
> David & Michael, what do you think?
HEAD is a per-worktree ref, so it's always handled by the files
backend. So this looks fine to me.
> > +/*
> > + * Update HEAD of the specified gitdir.
> > + * Similar to create_symref("relative-git-dir/HEAD", target,
> > NULL), but this is
> > + * able to update the main working tree's HEAD wherever $GIT_DIR
> > points to.
nit: "able to update the main working tree's HEAD regardless of where
GIT_DIR points to" would be clearer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-21 9:50 [PATCH] branch: update all per-worktree HEADs when renaming a branch Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-21 17:41 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-22 0:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-03-25 11:56 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 11:33 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] branch: fix branch operations with multiple working trees Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 21:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-27 7:29 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] refs: add new flag RESOLVE_REF_COMMON_DIR to resolve_ref_unsafe Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] refs: add REF_COMMON_DIR flag Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] refs: add create_symref_common_dir as a variation of create_symref Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] branch -m: update all per-worktree HEADs Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 18:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] branch -d: refuse deleting a branch which is currently checked out Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-25 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-27 17:52 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-28 7:16 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-28 7:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-28 16:51 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-29 9:28 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-29 18:47 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-29 9:38 ` [PATCH v3] " Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] update all per-worktree HEADs when renaming a branch Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] refs: add a new function set_worktree_head_symref Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-03-28 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-29 2:23 ` David Turner [this message]
2016-04-07 21:20 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-08 6:37 ` Kazuki Yamaguchi
2016-04-08 6:42 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-03-27 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] branch -m: update all per-worktree HEADs Kazuki Yamaguchi
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