Re: git-dir requires work-tree; documentation improvements for working directory
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- Yaroslav Nikitenko <metst13@gmail.com>
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- Jan 3, 2021, 09:12 UTC
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2021-01-03 1:02 GMT+03:00, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
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> Yaroslav Nikitenko wrote: >> 2021-01-02 22:12 GMT+03:00, Felipe Contreras >> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>: >> > Yaroslav Nikitenko wrote: >> >> I use git to manage my dotfiles with this command: >> >> >> >> git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ --work-tree=/home/yaroslav >> > >> > I do precisely the same thing. >> > >> >> When reading documentation, I noticed two issues. >> >> >> >> 1) The command doesn't work without --work-tree (even from the top >> >> level directory, which is my home directory). >> >> >> >> [~]$ git --git-dir=/home/yaroslav/.cfg/ status >> >> fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree >> > >> > That's weird. It works fine here (although I don't see why I would want >> > that). >> >> BTW, how do you do that in your case? > > I have an alias: > > alias config='git --git-dir=$HOME/.config/dotfiles/.git/ > --work-tree=$HOME' > > So, when I'm in my $HOME, I can do: > > config status
Thanks.
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>> > If you remove all your configuration does it still fail? >> >> It starts to work when I remove my .cfg/config. I've no idea why it >> happens. Here is its contents: >> >> $ more .cfg/config >> [core] >> repositoryformatversion = 0 >> filemode = true >> bare = true > > That's the difference: my core.bare is false. > > I do have a checked out work-tree because that's the only way I could > get some commands to work, for example `git rebase`, even though I don't > use that work-tree. > > I'm not sure if it makes sense to not assume '.' is the work-tree when > 'core.bare=true', but I think it does make sense, so maybe just turn > that off. > > Cheers. > > -- > Felipe Contreras >
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd rather not change my config at the moment. It's not difficult to provide work-tree in the alias.
However, I think that this is a bug in the implementation or the documentation. It's not highlighted anywhere that the repository must be non-bare for git-dir to work without explicit work-tree (an opposite is stated in general).
Should I write a letter with [BUG] in its header for that to be noticed? I'm surprised why there is no issue tracker for git.
Cheers, Yaroslav Nikitenko