Re: finding the right remote branch for a commit

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 15, 2007, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707160036160.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070715223341.GA3797@moooo.ath.cx>

Hi,

you left enough hints to convince me that you will not fix the bugs. So I will bite the bullet, and find some time this week to fix the issues.

Junio, I'd really appreciated if you considered waiting with 1.5.3 (maybe do an -rc2?) before these bugs are squashed.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > In practice, and I consider these all bugs, it does not work:
> > 
> > - you have to say
> > 
> >   $ git --work-tree=$HOME --bare init
> > 
> >   which is a bit counterintuitive.  After all, it is _not_ a bare 
> >   repository.  The whole purpose of worktree, as far as I understand, is 
> >   to have a _detached_ repository, which would otherwise be called bare.
> 
> Use
> 
>     $ git --work-tree "$HOME" --git-dir . init
> 
> instead.

Why _should_ that be necessary at all? I _already_ told git that the working tree is somewhere else. It makes _no sense at all_ to treat the cwd as anything else than the GIT_DIR, when --work-tree but no --git-dir were specified.

> IMHO the --bare flag did not make much sense before the introduction
> of GIT_WORK_TREE and doesn't after, at least not with the meaning it
> has: why should 'git --bare' mean to use the repository from cwd?

To the contrary, it makes tons of sense. If you want to initialise a bare repository, what _more_ natural way than to say "git init --bare"? And what _more_ natural place to pick for GIT_DIR than the cwd, when you did not specify --git-dir?

> > [descriptions of bugs, that have been largely ignored]
>
> Up to now you are supposed to be in the working tree all the time when 
> using it.  Therefore I'd call these feature requests rather than bugs :)

Feature requests? WTF? What reason is there for the _requirement_ to specify a working tree, when git does not make use of it? Hmm?

Ciao, Dscho