$GIT_COMMON_DIR: a new environment variable

This variable is intended to support multiple working directories
attached to a repository. Such a repository may have a main working
directory, created by either "git init" or "git clone" and one or more
linked working directories. These working directories and the main
repository share the same repository directory.

In linked working directories, $GIT_COMMON_DIR must be defined to point
to the real repository directory and $GIT_DIR points to an unused
subdirectory inside $GIT_COMMON_DIR. File locations inside the
repository are reorganized from the linked worktree view point:

 - worktree-specific such as HEAD, logs/HEAD, index, other top-level
   refs and unrecognized files are from $GIT_DIR.

 - the rest like objects, refs, info, hooks, packed-refs, shallow...
   are from $GIT_COMMON_DIR (except info/sparse-checkout, but that's
   a separate patch)

Scripts are supposed to retrieve paths in $GIT_DIR with "git rev-parse
--git-path", which will take care of "$GIT_DIR vs $GIT_COMMON_DIR"
business.

The redirection is done by git_path(), git_pathdup() and
strbuf_git_path(). The selected list of paths goes to $GIT_COMMON_DIR,
not the other way around in case a developer adds a new
worktree-specific file and it's accidentally promoted to be shared
across repositories (this includes unknown files added by third party
commands)

The list of known files that belong to $GIT_DIR are:

ADD_EDIT.patch BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK BISECT_EXPECTED_REV BISECT_LOG
BISECT_NAMES CHERRY_PICK_HEAD COMMIT_MSG FETCH_HEAD HEAD MERGE_HEAD
MERGE_MODE MERGE_RR NOTES_EDITMSG NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE ORIG_HEAD
REVERT_HEAD SQUASH_MSG TAG_EDITMSG fast_import_crash_* logs/HEAD
next-index-* rebase-apply rebase-merge rsync-refs-* sequencer/*
shallow_*

Path mapping is NOT done for git_path_submodule(). Multi-checkouts are
not supported as submodules.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
git-sh-setup.sh: use rev-parse --git-path to get $GIT_DIR/objects

If $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set, $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY should be
$GIT_COMMON_DIR/objects, not $GIT_DIR/objects. Just let rev-parse
--git-path handle it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
*.sh: avoid hardcoding $GIT_DIR/hooks/...

If $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set, it should be $GIT_COMMON_DIR/hooks/, not
$GIT_DIR/hooks/. Just let rev-parse --git-path handle it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-stash: avoid hardcoding $GIT_DIR/logs/....

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c: convert is_git_directory() to use strbuf

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c: detect $GIT_COMMON_DIR in is_git_directory()

If the file "$GIT_DIR/commondir" exists, it contains the value of
$GIT_COMMON_DIR.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c: convert check_repository_format_gently to use strbuf

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c: detect $GIT_COMMON_DIR check_repository_format_gently()

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
setup.c: support multi-checkout repo setup

The repo setup procedure is updated to detect $GIT_DIR/commondir and
set $GIT_COMMON_DIR properly.

The core.worktree is ignored when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set. This is
because the config file is shared in multi-checkout setup, but
checkout directories _are_ different. Making core.worktree effective
in all checkouts mean it's back to a single checkout.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
wrapper.c: wrapper to open a file, fprintf then close

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
use new wrapper write_file() for simple file writing

This fixes common problems in these code about error handling,
forgetting to close the file handle after fprintf() fails, or not
printing out the error string..

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout: support checking out into a new working directory

"git checkout --to" sets up a new working directory with a .git file
pointing to $GIT_DIR/repos/<id>. It then executes "git checkout" again
on the new worktree with the same arguments except "--to" is taken
out. The second checkout execution, which is not contaminated with any
info from the current repository, will actually check out and
everything that normal "git checkout" does.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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checkout: clean up half-prepared directories in --to mode

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
checkout: reject if the branch is already checked out elsewhere

One branch obviously can't be checked out at two places (but detached
heads are ok). Give the user a choice in this case: --detach, -b
new-branch, switch branch in the other checkout first or simply 'cd'
and continue to work there.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
prune: strategies for linked checkouts

(alias R=$GIT_COMMON_DIR/repos/<id>)

 - linked checkouts are supposed to keep its location in $R/gitdir up
   to date. The use case is auto fixup after a manual checkout move.

 - linked checkouts are supposed to update mtime of $R/gitdir. If
   $R/gitdir's mtime is older than a limit, and it points to nowhere,
   repos/<id> is to be pruned.

 - If $R/locked exists, repos/<id> is not supposed to be pruned. If
   $R/locked exists and $R/gitdir's mtime is older than a really long
   limit, warn about old unused repo.

 - "git checkout --to" is supposed to make a hard link named $R/link
   pointing to the .git file on supported file systems to help detect
   the user manually deleting the checkout. If $R/link exists and its
   link count is greated than 1, the repo is kept.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
gc: style change -- no SP before closing parenthesis

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gc: factor out gc.pruneexpire parsing code

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gc: support prune --repos

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
count-objects: report unused files in $GIT_DIR/repos/...

In linked checkouts, borrowed parts like config is taken from
$GIT_COMMON_DIR. $GIT_DIR/config is never used. Report them as
garbage.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>