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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git-shortlog hangs on bare repo without --bare option
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:56:58 -0700
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> A few complexities I found were:
>
>   - some things really want no setup, like init and clone. I don't
>     recall the exact issues, but trying obvious things caused breakage
>     there.

An obvious thing is to start these commands in a subdirectory of an
existing git worktree.

>   - the setup needs to not just be part of git.c, but factored out so
>     non-builtin C programs can use it.

Obviously.