Re: .git/index

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mar 25, 2009, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903251749270.11062@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910903251016n117c37fdp94f91b2862cd7bf@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> I pushed a repo up to my server. I want to view this repo with gitweb
> but it is not visible in my project list like my other projects. I
> suspect this is because the newly pushed repo is missing .git/index. I
> ran update-server-info on the repo and that didn't create .git/index.
> What command builds this index?

.git/index is the default name used for what is commonly referred to as the staging area these days. It's only needed when you have a work tree, and is expected to be absent from a bare repository.

A more likely cause for a repository to not be picked up by gitweb is file permissions.

-- 
Julian

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