Re: [PATCH] clone: support atomic operation with --separate-git-dir

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 6, 2013, 09:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20130106091642.GA10956@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dbe1+e4-XjB+S=kvXyi_Hdt4CQ6K1Z1V-4sqaYekKPWw@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen wrote:

>                                                               And
> because junk_work_tree is not set up for --bare, I guess we still need
> to fix "--bare --separate-git-dir" case, or forbid it because i'm not
> sure if that case makes sense at all.

Forbidding it makes sense to me. If some day we want a git command to create a .git file, I don't think it should be spelled as "git clone --bare --separate-git-dir <repo>". In the meantime,

	printf '%s\n' 'gitdir: /path/to/repo' >repo.git

works fine.