Re: [PATCH] setup: recognize bare repositories with packed-refs

> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 02:04:46PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> >   - whatever is consuming the embedded repos could "mkdir -p refs
> >     objects" as needed. This is a minor pain, but I think in the long
> >     term we are moving to a world where you have to explicitly do
> >     "GIT_DIR=$PWD/embedded.git" to access an embedded bare repo. So
> >     they're already special and require some setup; adding an extra step
> >     may not be so bad.
> 
> I hope not. I suppose that using embedded bare repositories in a test
> requires additional setup at least to "cd" into the directory (if they
> are not using `$GIT_DIR` or `--git-dir` already). But I fear that
> imposing even a small change like this is too tall an order for how many
> millions of these exist in the wild across all sorts of projects.