Re: Moving .git around

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

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.

>  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