Ah, jeah thats true:

The command in question which is git rev-parse --git-dir to find the actual GIT_DIR is actually the issue here: It relies on having a proper HEAD despite the docs saying it only reports GIT_DIR if set etc...

Could we maybe make these commands more agnostic? Making an empty HEAD probably directly also resolves these commands to work correctly.

Gabriel

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Gabriel Nützi <gnuetzi@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug: git init with hook reference-transaction running git rev-parse --git-dir fails
Date: 10/07/2024 12:57:19 PM

git rev-parse --git-dir