From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:39:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo
Message-ID: <7v3an3e0xv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080624055022.GC19224@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The shell version used to use "mkdir -p" to create the repo path, but
> the C version just calls "mkdir". Let's replicate the old behavior. In
> this case we can simply create the directories leading up to the git
> dir. If it's a bare repo, then that is everything that init_db wants
> ahead of time. If it isn't bare, then the worktree contains the git dir,
> so we create the worktree.

Clever ;-)

> The big difference is that safe_create_leading_directories will do an
> adjust_shared_perm on the result. I don't think that should be a
> problem, but it is a difference.

This early in the code you would not have read anything that triggers
"shared" so it probably is not a problem, I would think.