Re: git reset --hard in .git causes a checkout in that directory

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:30:46PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>
>> When I was working on my code and made a mess that I wanted to undo,
>> I accidentally did it in the .git directory, and had a whole clone of
>> my last committed tree there.
>> 
>> It can be triggered easily:
>> 
>> mkdir test; cd test; git init; touch foo; git add foo; git commit -m
>> 'add foo'; cd .git; git reset --hard; [ -f foo ] && echo hello beauty
>> 
>> Other parts of git could be affected, I haven't checked where exactly
>> the bug hides, so I was afraid to send in a patch
>
> Yuck. Thanks for the bug report. This is due to a too-loose check on my
> part in 49b9362 (git-reset: refuse to do hard reset in a bare
> repository, 2007-12-31).
>
> Junio, I think the following should go to maint (I didn't bother
> splitting the --merge and --hard code; --merge is in v1.6.2. I assumed
> we don't care about maint releases that far back).