Re: Alternates corruption issue

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2012, 22:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20120131225909.GA13780@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20120131224240.GA3844@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:22:58PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>> I admit part of the reason I care is that just putting "" first would
>> probably taken care of the more important part of
>> <http://bugs.debian.org/399041>.
>
> Would that fix it? If I understand it, the repo in question is bare with
> a ".git" directory inside it.

The layout was foo/.git/.git. The real repository was made with plain "git init" or "git clone", and then "git svn init" or similar was run from within .git, creating a .git subdirectory. (Something more must have happened, actually, since the tree was weirdly sparse:

	$ find .git/.git
	.git/.git
	.git/.git/svn
	.git/.git/svn/git-svn
	.git/.git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db

In the current scheme, to access such a broken repository remotely, you have to use a URL ".../foo". URLs pointing to foo/.git (like gitk once used) end up rewritten as .git/.git. Of course, your patch with the is_git_directory() will fix this specific case. :)

Not a huge deal, especially since "git svn init" prints out where it is writing these days.