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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Automatically detect a bare git repository.
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:52:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061231125205.GB14286@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061231043019.GC5823@spearce.org>

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:30:19PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Many users find it unfriendly that they can create a bare git
> repository easily with `git clone --bare` but are then unable to
> run simple commands like `git log` once they cd into that newly
> created bare repository.  This occurs because we do not check to
> see if the current working directory is a git repository.

Thanks for coding this up!   

If you do this, does this mean that we can also eliminate the global
variable --bare, since git will be able to figure out we're in a bare
repository all by itself?

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-31 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3ffc8ddd9b500c2a34d2bd6ba147dc750d951bcd.1167539318.git.spearce@spearce.org>
2006-12-31  4:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31  4:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] Automatically detect a bare git repository Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-31  5:26     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-31  5:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-31 12:52   ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-01-01 21:01     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31 17:54   ` Martin Waitz
2007-01-01 20:57     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31  4:32 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/4] Disallow working directory commands in a bare repository Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31  5:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-31  6:11     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2006-12-31  8:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-31 12:49         ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-31 15:13           ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-31 19:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 21:42               ` Johannes Schindelin

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