>> I live by new-workdir.  I do everything with it.  And today I
quoted text
>> just spent over an hour sorting out cases where my many, many
>> workdirs have different refs than their base repositories,
>> because their packed-refs files are different.
>> Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
>>=20
>> So we really need to make anyone that edits packed-refs (and=20
>> maybe also config) resolve the symlink and do the edit in the=20
>> target directory.  Then we can consider adding this workdir thing
>>  to core git.
>=20
> This is actually not limited to packed-refs file, but applies to=20
> other things as well.
>=20
> I have been wondering if something like this patch would be=20
> sufficient.  The idea essentially is to take the lock on the link
> target when we try to take a lock on something that is a symlink
> pointing elsewhere.
(..snip..)

While you guys are discussing this, please please keep in mind that=20
there are Windows users (/me raises his hand) out there that really=20
really want this too. So, please try to keep it light on the symlinks.

--=20
=2Emarius