From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cannot clone a linked working directory.
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:16:11 +0700
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Bj=C3=B8rnar Snoksrud <snoksrud@gmail.=
com> wrote:
> Summary:
> When creating a linked working directory with `git checkout --to`, yo=
u
> cannot clone from the local path. This works when cloning the main
> repository directory.
>
> I couldn't find anything the the documentation for `git checkout` tha=
t
> indicates that this shouldn't work.

I didn't think of this use case. If something works on the main
worktree then it should also work on linked checkouts. I think I see
the problem and will try to fix it in probably a few days (the "git
add -N" problem takes higher priority).
--=20
Duy