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Subject: .git/index

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4 messages between Mar 25, 2009 and Mar 25, 2009.

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Jon Smirl· Mar 25, 2009, 17:16 UTC · lore

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?

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Julian Phillips· Mar 25, 2009, 17:52 UTC · re: Jon Smirl · lore

Re: .git/index

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.

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Jon Smirl· Mar 25, 2009, 18:03 UTC · re: Julian Phillips · lore

Re: .git/index

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:

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> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>> 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.

It needed to be added to the gitweb projects file.

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Junio C Hamano· Mar 25, 2009, 18:02 UTC · re: Jon Smirl · lore

Re: .git/index

The index is associated with the work tree. Since gitweb is supposed to read and show the history and never the work tree state, it would be a bug if it required it to operate.