Re: [PATCH] checkout-index needs a working tree

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> > ---
> > 
> > 	This fixes "git --work-tree=/some/where/else checkout-index".
> > 
> >  git.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> > index 25b8274..f8c4545 100644
> > --- a/git.c
> > +++ b/git.c
> > @@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
> >  		{ "branch", cmd_branch, RUN_SETUP },
> >  		{ "bundle", cmd_bundle },
> >  		{ "cat-file", cmd_cat_file, RUN_SETUP },
> > -		{ "checkout-index", cmd_checkout_index, RUN_SETUP },
> > +		{ "checkout-index", cmd_checkout_index,
> > +			RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE},
> >  		{ "check-ref-format", cmd_check_ref_format },
> >  		{ "check-attr", cmd_check_attr, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
> >  		{ "cherry", cmd_cherry, RUN_SETUP },
> With this patch I'm not able to do
> 
> 	git checkout-index --prefix=/tmp/exportdir -a
> 
> to export an entire tree as described in git-checkout-index(1) in a bare
> repo.

That is _completely_ expected.  If it is a bare repository, you can _only_ 
override that check by GIT_WORK_TREE or --work-tree.

But I have to wonder: if you want to use git checkout-index, which is a 
work-tree operation, why did you mark it as bare to begin with?

Ciao,
Dscho