Re: Bug? git worktree fails with master on bare repo

From: Michael Tutty <mtutty@gforgegroup.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2016, 13:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOi_75KR+AEAD540L=GtQ7jH5ngTFdHMq53+FzjzAfsZtTqfwg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DMKWeZ+DuQ0uoY6rdPfusq8D1SfBCkPyn+6X9S589ncg@mail.gmail.com>

> If I create a bare _clone_, then "HEAD" could be detached, or point to some branch, depending on where "HEAD" is in the source repo

I didn't mean a clone, I meant a brand-new (bare) repo. Then I would clone it somewhere, add commits and branches, and push them to the bare repo.

> If source repo's HEAD is "master", I got the same behavior (worktree add fails)

So if it's possible for a bare repo to have HEAD pointing at master, is there a safe way for me to change this (e.g., as a cleanup step before doing my actual merge process)?

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Michael Tutty <mtutty@gforgegroup.com> wrote:
>> Dennis,
>> Thanks for the great response, and for spending time on my issue.
>> I'll try that first patch and see what happens.
>>
>> In the meantime, it got weirder...
>>
>> I created a brand-new (bare) repo
>
> Elaboration needed here. If I create a bare _clone_, then "HEAD" could
> be detached, or point to some branch, depending on where "HEAD" is in
> the source repo. If source repo's HEAD is "master", I got the same
> behavior (worktree add fails). If it's detached or points to some
> other branch, it's ok. If this is "git init --bare" then I got "fatal:
> invalid reference: master".
>
>> and was able to git add worktree
>> /path master.  I was able to do this repeatedly, even using the
>> worktree to merge other branches to master.  I didn't find any
>> condition or step that caused some kind of orphan master work tree,
>> which was what I thought the underlying problem might be.
> --
> Duy

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