Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-gui: properly check for a bare repo

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:16:39 -0800

Giuseppe Bilotta <[email-masked]> wrote:
> When bare repository handling is not enabled, check for a bare
> repository looking at the core.bare config option rather than refusing
> to operate with a git directory ending with .git.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <[email-masked]>
> ---
> I know I should have probably used something like
> git rev-parse --is-bare-repository instead, but I didn't feel like
> adding another git call. Is the config approach robust enough?
> 
>  git-gui/git-gui.sh |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> index e018e07..658a728 100755
> --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> @@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ if {$_prefix ne {}} {
>  	}
>  	unset cdup
>  } elseif {![is_enabled bare]} {
> -	if {[lindex [file split $_gitdir] end] ne {.git}} {
> +	if {[is_config_true core.bare]} {

This doesn't work as you expect.  Its a chicken-and-egg problem.
We haven't read the config yet because we aren't sure that the
$_gitdir really is a git directory.  Consequently, core.bare is
always false.

However, yes, in modern versions of git the core.bare setting in
.git/config is *usually* accurate.

The only time it isn't is when its not present (really old repository
which hasn't been re-init'd in a long time), or when the user does
"mv .git ../foo.git" to create a bare repository from a non-bare one.

;-)

-- 
Shawn.