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Re: [PATCH 3/4] Automatically detect a bare git repository.

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Dec 31, 2006, 12:52 UTC
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<20061231125205.GB14286@thunk.org>
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<20061231043019.GC5823@spearce.org>
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:30:19PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Many users find it unfriendly that they can create a bare git
> repository easily with `git clone --bare` but are then unable to
> run simple commands like `git log` once they cd into that newly
> created bare repository.  This occurs because we do not check to
> see if the current working directory is a git repository.
Thanks for coding this up!

If you do this, does this mean that we can also eliminate the global variable --bare, since git will be able to figure out we're in a bare repository all by itself?

						- Ted
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Message 6 of 17 in “Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.”
  1. 2/4 Replace "GIT_DIR" with GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT.Shawn O. Pearce, Dec 31, 2006
  2. 3/4 Automatically detect a bare git repository.Shawn O. Pearce, Dec 31, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceDec 31, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2006
  6. Theodore TsoDec 31, 2006
  7. Shawn O. PearceJan 1, 2007
  8. Martin WaitzDec 31, 2006
  9. Shawn O. PearceJan 1, 2007
  10. 4/4 Disallow working directory commands in a bare repository.Shawn O. Pearce, Dec 31, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2006
  12. Shawn O. PearceDec 31, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2006
  14. Theodore TsoDec 31, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinDec 31, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 31, 2006
  17. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2007

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