From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:20:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Clean up work-tree handling
Message-ID: <7v8x911wn6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707271146290.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> But there is a fundamental question I have to ask: Is there any reason why 
>
> 	$ git --git-dir=/some/where/else.git bla
>
> should pretend that the repo is bare if core.bare == 1?  I mean, we are 
> implicitely setting the work tree to the cwd, no?

I have two repositories at the primary k.org machine.

 - /home/junio/git.git --- this is with a worktree so that I can
   build and test on a FC machine (my primary development
   machine at home is a Debian).

 - /pub/scm/git/git.git/ --- this is a bare repository that is
   mirrored out to git://git.kernel.org/ and friends.

And I usually am in the former.  From time to time, I do this:

 $ GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/git/git.git/ git fsck
 $ GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/git/git.git/ git repack

because I am old fashioned, but I would expect these to be
equivalent to the above:

 $ git --git-dir=/pub/scm/git/git.git/ fsck
 $ git --git-dir=/pub/scm/git/git.git/ repack

I do not think these imply that the repository is with worktree.