Re: [PATCH] Add bare repository indicator for __git_ps1

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Marius Storm-Olsen <git@storm-olsen.com> writes:

> Prefixes the branch name with "BARE:" if you're in a
> bare repository.

The updated code may correctly detect when you are in such a situation,
but I have to wonder why anybody would even want to be reminded that he is
in a bare repository to begin with.

For doing any usual work of growing history, you would work inside a
repository with an work tree.  The only occasion you would *go* to a bare
repository would be to tweak, futz with and fix one that is used as a
distribution point, isn't it?  You usually update such a repository by
pushing into it, so your being there would be a result of very conscious
act of chdir'ing into it yourself, and you wouldn't be spending too much
time in there anyway.

There may be a different workflow where you would stay in a bare
repository for an extended period of time and you would benefit from such
a reminder like this patch adds, but I do not think of one.

Care to enlighten?