Re: git-relink doesn't work on bare repos

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Tue March 4 2008 9:03:15 am Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Tue March 4 2008 1:09:59 am Sean wrote:
> > > repos follow the general naming convention of ending in .git relink
> > > will work.  That is, if your bare repos are named repo.git rather than
> > > just repo.
> >
> > I never do that because I think it's silly to have to type .git
> > everytime ;-)
>
> Well, it is a convention, and if you choose not to follow it, that's what
> you get.

That's not documented anywhere.

I mean, git is plubming, right?  I should be able to call it myrepo.exe if I 
like, and as long as it has a .git dir with stuff in it, or is bare, it 
should just work.

> > If I give people a git:// url, they already know it's a Git repo, I
> > figure.
>
> So you must use "--git-dir" _everytime_ you are working with Git inside
> the repo.

That's not been my experience.  In fact, I can 'git log' quite happily inside 
a bare repo.  Why on earth should git-relink care what I have named my repo?  
It's not like git clone, push, pull, or anything else cares.

-- John