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Re: Worktrees attached to bare repo don't work

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Sep 13, 2020, 04:49 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 4:01 PM Lobachevksiy Vitaliy <numzer0@yandex.ru> wrote:
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> I have a bare repository and several worktrees attached to it. That was
> working fine until recent update. Now when I try virtually any git
> command like `git status` in any attached worktree, or even in a new
> one, it prints `fatal: this operation must be run in a work tree`.
> The workaround is simply `git config --worktree --add core.bare false`
> in each worktree.

This is happening because you have apparently set the configuration variable extensions.worktreeConfig to true. As far as I can tell by reading the "Configuration File" section of the "git worktree" documentation and by consulting the commit[1] which introduced extensions.worktreeConfig, this is working as intended. According to the "git worktree" documentation, configuration core.bare is no longer specially filtered out when inside a worktree once extensions.worktreeConfig is enabled, so you need to move the core.bare=true setting out of the bare.git/config and into bare.git/config.worktree to prevent the worktrees from seeing that setting. Once that's done, you don't need the per-worktree core.bare=false setting you've been using as a workaround.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20181021140228.24941-3-pclouds@gmail.com/
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  1. Lobachevksiy VitaliySep 12, 2020
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