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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "Frédéric Heitzmann" <frederic.heitzmann@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:11:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120310141119.GA11178@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALeToSUaPzdr=u7FfwHEtEanphVP5LZ09QdQXno52PLBTK0H-g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Frédéric Heitzmann wrote:

> export GIT_DIR=$PWD/.gita &&
> git init

This is where the recipe goes wrong.  It creates a bare repository.
Using vi or "git config" to edit its configuration to set the "[core]
bare" setting to false would change that.

The git-config(1) manpage says:

	By default a repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be
	not bare (bare = false), while all other repositories are
	assumed to be bare (bare = true).

and the logic in builtin/init-db.c seems to agree.

Maybe there is a better place to document this.  Improvements
welcome.

Thanks,
Jonathan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-10 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 22:51 Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !? Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-09 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-10 13:23   ` Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-10 14:05     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-10 21:20       ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]         ` <CALeToSVPWPwJTYxRgy0BW4TBfBJrb+LXC+QJDWjceQ=4f2_tRw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <CALeToSV6xx=Vfw8gRbmeKWDzcHFaYvgFhMqx5cwtCYKdASJptw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-11 21:13             ` Frédéric Heitzmann
2012-03-10 14:11 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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