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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/32] checkout: support checking out into a new working directory
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:08:49 +0100
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From: "Duy Nguyen" <pclouds@gmail.com>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> All checkouts share the same repository. Linked checkouts see the
>> repository a bit different from the main checkout. When you perform
>> the command
>>
>> ------------
>> git checkout --to <some-location> <some-branch>
>> ------------
>>
>> The checkout at <some-location> will have a unique id that is also 
>> the
>> branch name (e.g. "<some-branch>"). A number may be appended to the 
>> id
>
> .. and I got my facts wrong. The above line should be:
>
> last component of <some-location>. A number may be appended to the id
>

That's fine. Glad that we're on the same wavelength for the 
documentation.

>> to make it unique. All worktree-specific files of this new checkout
>> are in $GIT_DIR/repos/<unique-id> of the main checkout. So "HEAD"
>> inside the linked checkout will be resolved to
>> "$GIT_DIR/repos/<some-branch>/HEAD", while "HEAD" from the main
>
> s/<some-branch>/<unique-id>/
>
>> checkout remains "$GIT_DIR/HEAD".
>
>
>
> -- 
Philip