Re: A few "linked checkout" niggles

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I've tried to set up a non-bare clone of git.git at ~/w/src and
> attached one of its branches to a separate work tree at ~/w/rerere
>
>  ~/w/src$ git worktree add ../rerere jc/rerere
>
> Then I tried the "multiple checkout not allowed".
>
>  ~/w/src$ git checkout jc/rerere
>  fatal: 'jc/rerere' is already checked out at '/home/gitster/w/rerere/.git'
>
> You see the first "niggle" above.  Do we need "/.git" at the end?
> That is hopefully merely cosmetic and I am guessing that we can
> unconditionally drop "/.git" from the end, but maybe there are
> subtle reasons why it may not be a good idea (e.g. introduces some
> ambiguities?)
>
> There is another, a more serious one.
>
>  ~/w/src$ git fetch ../git.git jc/rerere:jc/rerere
>
> This succeeds, without checking if there is a work tree that has it
> checked out.  I think the safety in "git fetch" that can be disabled
> by "--update-head-ok" option should be updated to reuse the same
> protection used by the updated "git checkout".
>
> Something to work on for 2.5.x maintenance track, aiming for 2.5.1.

To keep things clear, Eric if you want these they are yours :-) I'll
focus on the submodule support after i'm done with all my bug fix
patches.
-- 
Duy