From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: $GIT_DIR usage Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:33:22 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46B59F63.8020707@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Zwell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 05 14:34:03 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 1IHfJ4-0008NW-2n for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:34:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045AbXHEMd5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:33:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754306AbXHEMd5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:33:57 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43691 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754678AbXHEMd4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 08:33:56 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Aug 2007 12:33:55 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 05 Aug 2007 14:33:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+lp3VHbvmlLzYQWx1p+v3RuFCL+mFYoaEn/qCTtc 6DDyi33G/MfPY7 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46B59F63.8020707@gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Dan Zwell wrote: > $ export GIT_DIR="`pwd`/.git_public" > $ git init > warning: templates not found /usr/share//git-core/templates/ > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/temp/.git_public/ I think that you implicitly created a bare repository with that. Just check if "git config core.bare" returns true. If so, you need to change that in order to have a working tree. Hth, Dscho