From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving .git around
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:51:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080803185129.GB3482@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0807231936ib103824u9204f1109119e1c2@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:06:28 +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
> <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/24/08, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> For reasons which would take a while to explain, I'm building a repository
> >> in a directory using "--git-dir=xxxx/.git --work-tree=." and
> >> then doing an "mv xxxx/.git ./.git" and then trying to work with
> >> that repository --- but can't
> >>
> >> Below is a sample script. The last line (git add) fails with
> >>
> >> fatal: unable to create
> >> '/usr/local/AusTop/AuPrograms/AuServer/testgit/aaa/bbb/.git/index.lock':
> >> No such file or directory
> >>
> >> git doesn't seem to realise that there is a .git back up the tree.
> >
> > It's because when you did git --work-tree=. init, worktree is stored
> > in .git/config. The code that chdir() in setup_git_directory()
> > probably forgot to chdir() back to toplevel worktree. Workaround could
> > be just remove core.worktree in .git/config.
>
> Many thanks, the work-around works. I'm not sure if this is a bug or
> a feature, but I'm happy either way.
That depends on what the value of core.worktree is:
- If it is '.', than I think it should be considered a bug in git init,
because that value is just plain nonsense.
- If it is '..', than it's a user error and the right thing is to just
remove it when you relocate the .git directory.
- If it was '/usr/local/AusTop/AuPrograms/AuServer/testgit/' than it would
have worked, so it's not that.
Best regards,
Jan
--
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 1:32 Moving .git around Geoff Russell
2008-07-24 2:12 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-24 2:36 ` Geoff Russell
2008-08-03 18:51 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
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