Re: [PATCH] Fix initialization of a bare repository

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Wait a minute.

Let's step back a bit and think what we want to happen here.

 * No GIT_DIR, no --bare.  Having GIT_WORK_TREE is an error.

   $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init

   We want to say "not bare" and create foo/.git/config and friends. 

 * No GIT_DIR, with --bare.  Having GIT_WORK_TREE is an error.

   $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git --bare init

   We want to say "is bare" and create foo/config, foo/HEAD and
   friends.

 * With GIT_DIR but no GIT_WORK_TREE, with or without --bare.

   $ mkdir foo.git && GIT_DIR=foo.git git init
   $ mkdir foo.git && GIT_DIR=foo.git git --bare init

   We want to say "is bare" and create foo.git/config and friends.

 * With GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE.  Having --bare is an error.

   $ mkdir foo.git foo.work
   $ GIT_DIR=foo.git GIT_WORK_TREE=foo.work git init

   We want to say "not bare", create foo.git/config and friends,
   and record core.worktree = /full/path/to/foo.work

Is the above list reasonable?

Yes.  I'll try to work on it the day after tomorrow.

Ciao,
Dscho