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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:11:19 -0600
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Hi,

=46r=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Heitzmann wrote:

> export GIT_DIR=3D$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 =3D false), while all other repositories are
	assumed to be bare (bare =3D 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