Re: 'git maintenance' won't work on bare repos

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:03 PM Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

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1. 'git config --global --get maintenance.repo' returns '.'
2. There are no Crontab entries inserted.

I can confirm that problem 1 is a bug. However, I am unable to
reproduce problem 2.

Note that the crontab entry won't be created until you run `git
maintenance start`. Is it possible that you are forgetting that step?
(Be aware that `git maintenance start` will show a misleading "no
crontab for <user>" message if you don't already have a crontab file,
but the crontab entry will be created nevertheless, as evidenced by
`crontab -l`.)

My bad. I misread the manpage, and didn't try to run 'git maintenance start'
on the bare repo, since the first step did not look right.

I have a patch which fixes the problem with the bare repo path being
incorrectly registered as ".", but I still need to create a regression
test for it.

I saw the patch, thanks for the quick fix!