[PATCH] git-init: inform user of `git --bare init' option
- From
- Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
- Date
- May 20, 2008, 19:48 UTC
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- <20080520194850.GB19226@bit.office.eurotux.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <20080519175313.GA17305@bit.office.eurotux.com>
Creation of a bare repository isn't consistent:
$ git init --bare usage: git-init [-q | --quiet] [--template=<template-directory>] [--shared] $ git --bare init Initialized empty Git repository in ...
Document the second option, and show an error informing of it if the user calls `git-init' with a `--bare' option.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Rocha <strange@nsk.pt> --- Documentation/git-init.txt | 2 ++ builtin-init-db.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index b17ae84..bb87e58 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ Running `git-init` in an existing repository is safe. It will not overwrite things that are already there. The primary reason for rerunning `git-init` is to pick up newly added templates. +For creating a bare repository, use the form `git --bare init`. + Note that `git-init` is the same as `git-init-db`. The command was primarily meant to initialize the object database, but over time it has become responsible for setting up the other aspects diff --git a/builtin-init-db.c b/builtin-init-db.c index a76f5d3..65454b1 100644 --- a/builtin-init-db.c +++ b/builtin-init-db.c @@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ int cmd_init_db(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) template_dir = arg+11; else if (!strcmp(arg, "--shared")) shared_repository = PERM_GROUP; + else if (!strcmp(arg, "--bare")) + die("Run `git --bare init' instead to create a bare repository"); else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--shared=")) shared_repository = git_config_perm("arg", arg+9); else if (!strcmp(arg, "-q") || !strcmp(arg, "--quiet"))
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