From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:52:53 GMT
Subject: Re: What commands can and can not be used with bare repositories?
Message-ID: <7v3b6wk3wq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061231021248.GA26067@thunk.org>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> That makes sense, although the hueristic for determining whether or
> not "." is a Git repository might be a little interesting.  Say, if
> there is no containing directory which has a .git directory, and the
> directories "objects", "info", and "refs" are present?

We have something called is_bare_git_dir() that does much
simpler and hacky check.

See my other message to Shawn regarding tradeoffs between
possible improvements and backward compatibility.