From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:46:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: really allow running in a bare repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902032145250.9822@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <431341160902031131s63f34665ne9db25d8a4d1f0f9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Eric Kidd wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > When checking if running in a bare repository, the work tree has to be
> > reset, otherwise we will be checking the temporary state, which is
> > always non-bare.
> 
> Just a few minutes after you posted this patch, I posted a
> nearly-identical fix for the same issue:
> 
>   http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123368695831812&w=2
> 
> (My patch includes a test case, too, but it's not very important.)

So clearly yours is superior.

> This raises another interesting question: Why doesn't 'git
> filter-branch' actually check whether subcommands succeed?

That's unintentional; AFAIR there was a "set -e" in cg-admin-rewritehist 
that I tried to do away with by introducing explicit '&&' conjunctions 
where needed.

So all those unchecked subcommands are bugs.

Thanks,
Dscho