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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] notes: replace pseudorefs with real refs
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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> I believe it is a bad compromise. It complicates the code, and it
> provides a concurrent notes merges that is unnecessarily tied to (and
> dependent on) worktrees. For example, if I wanted to perform N
> concurrent notes merges in a project that happens to have a huge
> worktree, I would now have to create N copies of the huge worktree...

Who said worktree has to be populated?  You should be able to have
an absolutely empty checkout just like "clone --no-checkout".