Re: git gui does not open bare repositories

From: Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2012, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID: <50656388.3050400@atlas-elektronik.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH6sp9ME0og0E-=oW6MBFMBv8hD0y8PpmdpyaV4qqr7Mb7c5VA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 28.09.2012 10:35, schrieb Frans Klaver:

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> Hi,
> 
> Please remember to reply to all when discussing things on the git mailing list.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Angelo Borsotti
> <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I apologise for having used the wrong script to reproduce the error.
>> This is  the right one:
>>
>> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
>> $ mkdir remote.git
>>
>> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
>> $ cd remote.git
>>
>> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest/remote.git (master)
>> $ git init --bare
>> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/remote.git/
>>
>> Now with the git gui I try to open the d:/gtest/remote.git/ and
>> receive the message
>> that it is not a git repository.
>>
>> I understand that the gui is mostly aimed to non-bare repositories,
>> but in such a case
>> it would be better it could give me a message like, e.g. "could not
>> open a bare repository"
>> instead of telling me that it is not a git repository (I thought my
>> bare repository was
>> corrupt, and tried to figure out what was wrong with it).
> 
> 
> Actually git-gui 0.16.0 is telling me that it cannot use bare
> repositories, much in the vein of what I wrote earlier. Don't know if
> it matters that I'm on Linux though.

I get "Not a Git repository: remote.git" as well, when I run git gui "somewhere" (i.e. not in "remote.git") and the select "Open Existing Repository".

I get "Cannot use bare repository: .../remote.git" when I run git gui from inside the "remote.git" directory.

Both on WinXP with msysGit.

Stefan

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