Re: Moving .git around

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
<pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/08, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For reasons which would take a while to explain, I'm building a repository
>>  in a directory  using "--git-dir=xxxx/.git --work-tree=." and
>>  then doing an "mv  xxxx/.git ./.git"  and then trying to work with
>>  that repository  --- but can't
>>
>>  Below is a sample script. The last line (git add) fails with
>>
>>  fatal: unable to create
>>  '/usr/local/AusTop/AuPrograms/AuServer/testgit/aaa/bbb/.git/index.lock':
>>  No such file or directory
>>
>>  git doesn't seem to realise that there is a .git back up the tree.
>
> It's because when you did git --work-tree=. init, worktree is stored
> in .git/config. The code that chdir() in setup_git_directory()
> probably forgot to chdir() back to toplevel worktree. Workaround could
> be just remove core.worktree in .git/config.

Many thanks, the work-around works. I'm not sure if this is a bug or
a feature, but I'm happy either way.

Cheers,
Geoff Russell

>
>>  I'm using 1.5.5.1
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Geoff Russell
>>
>>  ------------------------ sample script
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>  if [ -d "testgit" ] ; then
>>     echo "remove testgit"
>>     /bin/rm -rf testgit
>>  fi
>>  mkdir testgit && echo yyyy >testgit/sample.sh && cd testgit
>>  mkdir aaa && mkdir aaa/bbb
>>  echo xxxx > aaa/bbb/sample2.sh
>>  mkdir xxx
>>  git --git-dir=xxx/.git --work-tree=. init
>>  git --git-dir=xxx/.git --work-tree=. add *.sh
>>  git --git-dir=xxx/.git --work-tree=. commit  -m demo
>>  mv xxx/.git .
>>  cd aaa/bbb
>>  git add sample2.sh
>>
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>
>
> --
> Duy
>



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