# git gui does not open bare repositories 11 messages from 2012-09-28 to 2012-10-01. Participants: Angelo Borsotti, Frans Klaver, Stefan Näwe, Ben Smith-Mannschott. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31670 ## Angelo Borsotti, 2012-09-28 07:50 Subject: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB9Jk9CA%2Be8xR9sz7cW%2B5%2B990FmTeYN3pjxs4ZKFpkzb6OL35Q%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, I have created a bare repository: $ mkdir remote.git angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) $ git init --bare Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/ and then tried to open it with the git gui, but have got the message: "remote.git is not a git repository". The git gui is the one that I have downloaded from the git web site for windows: gt-gui version 0.16.GITGUI git version 1.7.11.msysgit.1 Thank you -Angelo Borsotti ``` ## Frans Klaver, 2012-09-28 08:08 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH6sp9N1cFH7orPNmfbhgHq6oUNtQNe%3D-5f5jkYNXzr%2B6Xp_pQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > I have created a bare repository: > > $ mkdir remote.git > > angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) > $ git init --bare > Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/ This creates a bare repository in d:/gtest, not in d:/gtest/remote.git. You'll need to cd into remote.git to create a bare repo. > and then tried to open it with the git gui, but have got the message: > "remote.git is not a git repository". So this message is correct. Be as it may, as soon as you've initialized the repo as required, git gui will (probably) tell you: "Cannot use bare repository: d:/gtest/remote.git" So nothing gained there. So I'm wondering what you expect git gui to give you in a bare repo? It seems to me that this tool is specifically aimed at non-bare repos, allowing for creating commits, merges and whatnot; all things you cannot typically do in a bare repo. Frans ``` ## Frans Klaver, 2012-09-28 08:35 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH6sp9ME0og0E-%3DoW6MBFMBv8hD0y8PpmdpyaV4qqr7Mb7c5VA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, Please remember to reply to all when discussing things on the git mailing list. On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > Hello > > I apologise for having used the wrong script to reproduce the error. > This is the right one: > > angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) > $ mkdir remote.git > > angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) > $ cd remote.git > > angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest/remote.git (master) > $ git init --bare > Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/remote.git/ > > Now with the git gui I try to open the d:/gtest/remote.git/ and > receive the message > that it is not a git repository. > > I understand that the gui is mostly aimed to non-bare repositories, > but in such a case > it would be better it could give me a message like, e.g. "could not > open a bare repository" > instead of telling me that it is not a git repository (I thought my > bare repository was > corrupt, and tried to figure out what was wrong with it). Actually git-gui 0.16.0 is telling me that it cannot use bare repositories, much in the vein of what I wrote earlier. Don't know if it matters that I'm on Linux though. Frans ``` ## Stefan Näwe, 2012-09-28 08:44 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: <50656388.3050400@atlas-elektronik.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/50656388.3050400%40atlas-elektronik.com In-Reply-To: ``` Am 28.09.2012 10:35, schrieb Frans Klaver: > Hi, > > Please remember to reply to all when discussing things on the git mailing list. > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Angelo Borsotti > wrote: >> Hello >> >> I apologise for having used the wrong script to reproduce the error. >> This is the right one: >> >> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) >> $ mkdir remote.git >> >> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master) >> $ cd remote.git >> >> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest/remote.git (master) >> $ git init --bare >> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/remote.git/ >> >> Now with the git gui I try to open the d:/gtest/remote.git/ and >> receive the message >> that it is not a git repository. >> >> I understand that the gui is mostly aimed to non-bare repositories, >> but in such a case >> it would be better it could give me a message like, e.g. "could not >> open a bare repository" >> instead of telling me that it is not a git repository (I thought my >> bare repository was >> corrupt, and tried to figure out what was wrong with it). > > > Actually git-gui 0.16.0 is telling me that it cannot use bare > repositories, much in the vein of what I wrote earlier. Don't know if > it matters that I'm on Linux though. I get "Not a Git repository: remote.git" as well, when I run git gui "somewhere" (i.e. not in "remote.git") and the select "Open Existing Repository". I get "Cannot use bare repository: .../remote.git" when I run git gui from inside the "remote.git" directory. Both on WinXP with msysGit. Stefan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/random says: Unless you're the lead dog, the view never changes. python -c "print '73746566616e2e6e616577654061746c61732d656c656b74726f6e696b2e636f6d'.decode('hex')" ``` ## Angelo Borsotti, 2012-09-28 08:56 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB9Jk9D8ZptEcBhCdzxUtWhKD__mYZ-J_TZQr70dOvED2uB0SQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <50656388.3050400@atlas-elektronik.com> ``` Then the misleading message is due to the Italian localization of the git gui. -Angelo ``` ## Angelo Borsotti, 2012-09-28 12:09 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB9Jk9C%3DndfO37YWS5mg4anu91N4O__iA_msmxU%2BX2_Nakv-tQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <50656388.3050400@atlas-elektronik.com> ``` I have removed the Italian localization so as to make git gui use the English one. The result is the same as I have found before. The message is: " Not a Git repository: remote.git". Thus, the misleading message is there. -Angelo ``` ## Ben Smith-Mannschott, 2012-09-28 14:15 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJ_tm-Q2%3DZpUQVHG1om5cfhqoLpCwo2fNoqcWOa-n00-h0raOQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Angelo, On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > I have removed the Italian localization so as to make git gui use the > English one. > The result is the same as I have found before. > The message is: " Not a Git repository: remote.git". > Thus, the misleading message is there. I'm not seeing what you're seeing. I'm running git 1.7.12.1 and I get exactly this message: Cannot use bare repository: /Users/bsmith/tmp/repo.git When I do exactly this: $ cd ~/tmp $ mkdir repo.git $ cd repo.git $ git init --bare $ git gui What, exactly, are you doing? // Ben ``` ## Angelo Borsotti, 2012-09-28 16:46 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB9Jk9AN39%2BRaNWX%2BDDEq9wVzJJBV-bjcDnUz6Ofy%2BbaveU-8w%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Ben, I am running git gui on Windows 7. Are you running it on Linux? -Angelo ``` ## Angelo Borsotti, 2012-09-28 18:22 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB9Jk9AAg3%2BJVxp1NVbAbZd00EfsWGMKBhZ1R-i0ZYeUZcEaYg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Ben, I run the same test on Linux, and have got the same results as you did. So the problem is only on Windows. -Angelo ``` ## Ben Smith-Mannschott, 2012-09-28 19:43 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJ_tm-S5kF2R-saQq6ER6669g6ND5k9ymuA0g_d%2BZe3x_N3HaQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I am running git gui on Windows 7. Are you running it on Linux? > > -Angelo Mac OS X // Ben ``` ## Stefan Näwe, 2012-10-01 06:22 Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories Message-ID: <5069369D.40402@atlas-elektronik.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5069369D.40402%40atlas-elektronik.com In-Reply-To: <50656388.3050400@atlas-elektronik.com> ``` Am 28.09.2012 10:44, schrieb Stefan Näwe: > I get "Not a Git repository: remote.git" as well, when I run > git gui "somewhere" (i.e. not in "remote.git") i.e.: $ cd /not/a/repo $ git gui > and the select "Open Existing Repository". > > I get "Cannot use bare repository: .../remote.git" when I run git gui > from inside the "remote.git" directory. i.e.: $ cd /path/to/bare-repo.git $ git gui > Both on WinXP with msysGit. And the same on Linux with Git v1.7.12 Stefan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- /dev/random says: Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... python -c "print '73746566616e2e6e616577654061746c61732d656c656b74726f6e696b2e636f6d'.decode('hex')" ```