From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:49:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add bare repository indicator for __git_ps1 Message-ID: <7v63j22z92.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <49A05958.7050703@trolltech.com> Marius Storm-Olsen writes: >> For doing any usual work of growing history, you would work inside >> a repository with an work tree. The only occasion you would *go* >> to a bare repository would be to tweak, futz with and fix one that >> is used as a distribution point, isn't it? You usually update such >> a repository by pushing into it, so your being there would be a >> result of very conscious act of chdir'ing into it yourself, and you >> wouldn't be spending too much time in there anyway. >> >> There may be a different workflow where you would stay in a bare >> repository for an extended period of time and you would benefit >> from such a reminder like this patch adds, but I do not think of >> one. >> >> Care to enlighten? > > Right, I have quite a few repos on my machine which are just bare, as I > use them gather branches and push out > again. (http://repo.or.cz/w/git/platforms.git is one of them) However, > it's probably just me, since I could just as easily put them in a proper > directory structure to indicate their bareness. Ah, so "gather branches and push out again" would look something like this? $ cd /pub/some/where/platforms.git $ git fetch platform1 ;# perhaps with master:one/master mapping $ git fetch platform2 ;# perhaps with master:two/master $ git push public Then it is very understandable that you would spend time inside a bare repository. I do not understand the need for GIT_DIR! thing even less, but since we have that there already, I do not see a reason not to add this to the queue.