Re: Need to set GIT_WORK_TREE when setting GIT_DIR !?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2012, 14:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20120310141119.GA11178@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <CALeToSUaPzdr=u7FfwHEtEanphVP5LZ09QdQXno52PLBTK0H-g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Frédéric Heitzmann wrote:

> export GIT_DIR=$PWD/.gita &&
> git init

This is where the recipe goes wrong. It creates a bare repository. Using vi or "git config" to edit its configuration to set the "[core] bare" setting to false would change that.

The git-config(1) manpage says:

	By default a repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be
	not bare (bare = false), while all other repositories are
	assumed to be bare (bare = true).

and the logic in builtin/init-db.c seems to agree.

Maybe there is a better place to document this. Improvements welcome.

Thanks, Jonathan