Re: git gui does not open bare repositories

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Angelo Borsotti
[off-list ref] wrote:

I have created a bare repository:

$ mkdir remote.git

angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
$ git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/

This creates a bare repository in d:/gtest, not in
d:/gtest/remote.git. You'll need to cd into remote.git to create a
bare repo.

and then tried to open it with the git gui, but have got the message:
"remote.git is not a git repository".

So this message is correct.

Be as it may, as soon as you've initialized the repo as required, git
gui will (probably) tell you:

"Cannot use bare repository:

d:/gtest/remote.git"

So nothing gained there. So I'm wondering what you expect git gui to
give you in a bare repo? It seems to me that this tool is specifically
aimed at non-bare repos, allowing for creating commits, merges and
whatnot; all things you cannot typically do in a bare repo.


Frans