From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix new-workdir (again) to work on bare repositories Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:25:45 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1wdwntc6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20070822015012.GA11085@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 22 05:26:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INgrO-0001Vr-Ut for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:26:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754398AbXHVDZ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754352AbXHVDZ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:25:56 -0400 Received: from rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.210.124.37]:36129 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754216AbXHVDZz (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:25:55 -0400 Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3324D125EA5; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:26:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070822015012.GA11085@spearce.org> (Shawn O. Pearce's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:50:12 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > My day-job workflow involves using multiple workdirs attached to a > bunch of bare repositories. Are you sure the patch would help? For one thing, I do not think we supported such a layout, officially or unofficially --- the thing is in contrib so it could not be official, but that is besides the point ;-). Older git might have worked by accident, though. You may have made the part to create the new directory and make bunch of symbolic links to work with your patch, but as far as I know, new-workdir is designed to share the .git/config file with the borrowed repository, which means the configuration would say "core.bare = yes" for a bare repository. So I suspect that the initial checkout after creating the new directory and populating its .git would barf, although I haven't tested it.