From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:47:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Make a non-bare repo bare.
Message-ID: <7vd4808iey.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460907160155g7c84b083u8a1dd6ba193f4531@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> writes:

> 2009/7/16 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com>:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>> Funny.
>>>
>>>    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/123303
>>>
>>> It is posed as a question but describes the correct (and officially
>>> supported) procedure.
>>
>>
>> Now it deserves to be in some Git FAQ. It seems the issue is more common
>> than I thought. :-)
>
> It already is
>
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#HowdoImakeexistingnon-barerepositorybare.3F
>
> unless that's new?

Somebody needs to promise to keep that entry up-to-date, or we should
rewrite it so that we do not expose such an implementation detail.

Even today core.bare is not the only difference between a repository with
a work tree and a bare one.  We also set core.logallrefupdates these days
for a repository with a work tree, so the procedure described there is
already stale.  And this kind of implementation details are bound to
change.

Asking git what to do is the only reliable "cut-and-paste-ready" recipe.