Subject: Re: rev-parse --is-bare-repository incorrect when work tree is set

From: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:56:02 +0200

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 02:59:50AM +0100, Sam Bazley wrote:
> rev-parse --is-bare-repository incorrectly outputs "false" when testing
> a bare repository with the work tree set.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> $ git init --bare testbare
> $ git --git-dir=testbare rev-parse --is-bare-repository
> true
> $ git --git-dir=testbare --work-tree=something rev-parse \
> --is-bare-repository
> false
> $ GIT_WORK_TREE=something git --git-dir=testbare rev-parse \
> --is-bare-repository
> false

A bare repository is a repository that doesn't have a worktree, and in
the last two cases you explicitly told git that it should treat
something as a worktree, so it just acted accordingly.