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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fixing workdirs
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 15:56:51 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:
> Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org> writes:
>> ... git checkout would check that no other workdir is currently "on
>> the same branch", and would refuse to checkout to a branch that is
>> already checkouted elsewhere.
>
> I am personally fine with this, but if there is no way to override th=
is
> refusal it may break some people's existing workflow. =A0I dunno.

Perhaps it would be better to refuse to *update* a particular ref if
some other worktree has it checked out?  I don't think actually having
multiple trees checked out to the same branch is a problem, so much as
what happens when they start committing.

Have fun,

Avery