From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:16:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: support atomic operation with --separate-git-dir
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.