From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: What is the idea for bare repositories? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:11:58 +0100 Message-ID: <86k5on8v6p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 12 14:12:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrZ5t-0000ce-3K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:12:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755701AbXKLNMe (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:12:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756020AbXKLNMe (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:12:34 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34589 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754294AbXKLNMd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:12:33 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IrZ5M-0001xi-9k for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:12:16 +0000 Received: from pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.91.15.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:12:16 +0000 Received: from dak by pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:12:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kKh7Dzb2MP6Kji/eiMY+qke3aTE= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I have a repository declared as bare. Some commands treat it as such, other's don't. For example, I get git-diff [no complaint] git-status fatal: /usr/local/bin/git-status cannot be used without a working tree. git-reset [no complaint] git-reset --hard HEAD is now at db862c1... installmanager.sh: setze GIT_WORK_TREE git-commit fatal: /usr/local/bin/git-commit cannot be used without a working tree. git-add fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree So this is all somewhat inconsistent. What is the situation supposed to be? -- David Kastrup