Re: [PATCH] Add bare repository indicator for __git_ps1

Junio C Hamano said the following on 21.02.2009 20:29:

Marius Storm-Olsen [off-list ref] writes:

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Prefixes the branch name with "BARE:" if you're in a bare
repository.

The updated code may correctly detect when you are in such a
situation, but I have to wonder why anybody would even want to be
reminded that he is in a bare repository to begin with.

Yeah I just noticed that, when I got some few cycles to spare. So I 
pushed out a v3 of that patch *sigh*

For doing any usual work of growing history, you would work inside
a repository with an work tree.  The only occasion you would *go*
to a bare repository would be to tweak, futz with and fix one that
is used as a distribution point, isn't it?  You usually update such
a repository by pushing into it, so your being there would be a
result of very conscious act of chdir'ing into it yourself, and you
wouldn't be spending too much time in there anyway.

There may be a different workflow where you would stay in a bare 
repository for an extended period of time and you would benefit
from such a reminder like this patch adds, but I do not think of
one.

Care to enlighten?

Right, I have quite a few repos on my machine which are just bare, as 
I use them gather branches and push out again. 
(http://repo.or.cz/w/git/platforms.git is one of them) However, it's 
probably just me, since I could just as easily put them in a proper 
directory structure to indicate their bareness.

Anyways, I just thought it would fairly "low cost" to add, and nice to 
have.

Consider it, as Linus coined the term, a throw-away patch. I can 
easily put it in my .bashrc instead. :)

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.marius