Re: [PATCH] setup: recognize bare repositories with packed-refs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2023, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbkbppbrd.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20231117203253.21143-1-adamm@zombino.com>

Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com> writes:

> In a garbage collected bare git repository, the refs/ subdirectory is
> empty.  In use-cases when such a repository is directly added into
> another repository, it no longer is detected as valid.

Josh & Glen [*], isn't this a layout that we explicitly discourage and eventually plan to forbid anyway?

*1* who worked on e35f202b (setup: trace bare repository setups, 2023-05-01)