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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git-new-workdir doesn't understand packed refs
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:17:43 -0700
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Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Recursively dereferencing the symbolic link by hand to a limit
>> to avoid infinite recursion (error out when we reach the limit)
>> would be a more elaborate solution that probably is the right
>> thing to do.
>>
> I thought about the case where packed-refs is a symlink to another symlink
> and then decided that it's not worth to implement this because a workdir
> should be linked to a _repo_ and not another workdir.

That's incredibly weak, as the initial motivation of this patch
is that you did not want to say "you should run gc only in the
_repo_ not in workdir".