On one particular system I like to keep a cluster of bare Git repositories and spawn new-workdirs off of them. Since the bare repositories don't have working directories associated with them they don't have a .git/ subdirectory that hosts the repository we are linking to. Using a bare repository as the backing repository for a workdir created by this script does require that the user delete core.bare from the repository's configuration file, so that Git auto-senses the bareness of a repository based on pathname information, and not based on the config file. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir | 12 +++++++----- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir index 9877b98..f2a3615 100755 --- a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir +++ b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir @@ -20,17 +20,19 @@ new_workdir=$2 branch=$3 # want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ... -test -d "$orig_git/.git" || die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!" +git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null && + git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) || + die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!" # don't link to a workdir -if test -L "$orig_git/.git/config" +if test -L "$git_dir/config" then die "\"$orig_git\" is a working directory only, please specify" \ "a complete repository." fi # make sure the the links use full paths -orig_git=$(cd "$orig_git"; pwd) +git_dir=$(cd "$git_dir"; pwd) # create the workdir mkdir -p "$new_workdir/.git" || die "unable to create \"$new_workdir\"!" @@ -45,13 +47,13 @@ do mkdir -p "$(dirname "$new_workdir/.git/$x")" ;; esac - ln -s "$orig_git/.git/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x" + ln -s "$git_dir/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x" done # now setup the workdir cd "$new_workdir" # copy the HEAD from the original repository as a default branch -cp "$orig_git/.git/HEAD" .git/HEAD +cp "$git_dir/HEAD" .git/HEAD # checkout the branch (either the same as HEAD from the original repository, or # the one that was asked for) git checkout -f $branch -- 1.5.2.789.g8ee1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html