Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <fh9vgu$u75$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <86pryf7815.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:

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> Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@c3sl.ufpr.br> writes:
> 
>> A bare repository is the way to publish your changes to the public.
>> git-daemon  and http-clones use a bare repository that only contains
>> adminsitrative files.

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> 
> Fine.  So why don't the following commands complain?  Apart from
> git-reset without arguments (which could probably get along without a
> working dir), they are supposed to employ a working directory.
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:11:58PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a repository declared as bare.  Some commands treat it as such,
>>> other's don't.  For example, I get
>>> 
>>> git-diff [no complaint]
>>> git-reset [no complaint]
>>> git-reset --hard
>>> HEAD is now at db862c1... installmanager.sh: setze GIT_WORK_TREE

git-diff can compare tree and tree, or tree and index; only for comparing tree and files of index and files it needs working dir.

git-reset resets only refs and index. git-reset --hard resets also files, so it needs working directory. Perhaps it should fail completely and not only after doing mixed (non-hard) reset if we are in bare repository.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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