Re: git gui does not open bare repositories

From: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2012, 08:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH6sp9N1cFH7orPNmfbhgHq6oUNtQNe=-5f5jkYNXzr+6Xp_pQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9CA+e8xR9sz7cW+5+990FmTeYN3pjxs4ZKFpkzb6OL35Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have created a bare repository:
>
> $ mkdir remote.git
>
> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
> $ git init --bare
> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/

This creates a bare repository in d:/gtest, not in d:/gtest/remote.git. You'll need to cd into remote.git to create a bare repo.

> and then tried to open it with the git gui, but have got the message:
> "remote.git is not a git repository".

So this message is correct.

Be as it may, as soon as you've initialized the repo as required, git gui will (probably) tell you:

"Cannot use bare repository:

d:/gtest/remote.git"

So nothing gained there. So I'm wondering what you expect git gui to give you in a bare repo? It seems to me that this tool is specifically aimed at non-bare repos, allowing for creating commits, merges and whatnot; all things you cannot typically do in a bare repo.

Frans