From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git-shortlog hangs on bare repo without --bare option
Message-ID: <7vd4jthh45.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080827233056.GA25745@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> A few complexities I found were:
>
>   - some things really want no setup, like init and clone. I don't
>     recall the exact issues, but trying obvious things caused breakage
>     there.

An obvious thing is to start these commands in a subdirectory of an
existing git worktree.

>   - the setup needs to not just be part of git.c, but factored out so
>     non-builtin C programs can use it.

Obviously.