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Re: no `bare = true' in `config' of a bare repository - problem or ignore?

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jun 17, 2008, 09:25 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0806171024060.6439@racer>
In-Reply-To
<200806161436.37278.brian.foster@innova-card.com>
Hi,
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Brian Foster wrote:
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>  Whilst investigating a (probably unrelated) mystery,
>  I noticed that some of my bare git repositories had:
> 
> 	[core]
>  	    bare = true
> 
>  whilst others did not (they had no `bare' setting at
>  all).

It's a historical thing: this setting was not present in older Git. Basically, we still have some autodetection ignoring the absence of core.bare.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Brian FosterJun 16, 2008
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