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Re: Bug report - Can create worktrees from bare repo / such worktrees can fool is_bare_repository()

From: Sean Allred <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-19 20:47:13

However, you missed the step (discussed in [1]) in which it is your
responsibility to move the `core.bare=true` setting from
git.git/config to git.git/worktree.config manually after setting
`extensions.worktreeconfig=true`.
Ahh, that makes sense!  I did notice the `core.bare` setting being
respected in source and figured this had a part to play (which is why
I included git-config output).

I think then that I was overzealous in trying to MWE-ify the issue: as
I noted, I found this issue when I was trying to perform a
sparse-checkout within the worktree.  To memory (I don't have my work
system at the moment and don't have its `history`), I think it went
something like this:

    git worktree add --no-checkout ../next && cd ../next
    git sparse-checkout init --cone # auto-created a worktree config
    git sparse-checkout set t

I think either the git-sparse-checkout-set command (or the
git-checkout I ran after) would fail complaining that I was not in a
worktree.  Based on the above, it sounds like `init` is creating the
worktree-specific config, but is not overriding `core.bare` in that
config.  Would a patch to take this step this automatically be
well-received?  I see two options for when to set `core.bare=false` in
worktree-specific config:

  1. At git-worktree-add: This is probably the earliest time which
     makes sense, but may be over-reach.  I'm not up-to-speed on how
     worktree-specific configs are generally considered on this list.
     If I were implementing a workaround, though, this is probably
     where I'd make it.

  2. At git-sparse-checkout-init: This is where the problem begins to
     have an effect, so this might also make sense.

I'm glad to learn about bare repositories + worktrees being a
supported use-case :-)
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