On Mon, Mar 26 2018, Rafael Ascensao wrote: > One of the tools that manages PKGBUILDS for Arch Linux stores PKGBUILD > git repos inside a cache directory for reuse. > > One of the repos is triggering some unexpected behaviour that can be > reproduced in the CLI with: > > $ GIT_DIR=spotify/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=spotify git reset HEAD > fatal: couldn't read spotify/.git/packed-refs: Not a directory > > Moving up one directory works as expected. > $ cd .. > $ GIT_DIR=sync/spotify/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=sync/spotify git reset HEAD > > Using -C seems to work fine too. > $ git -C spotify reset HEAD > > $ GIT_TRACE_SETUP=2 GIT_TRACE=2 GIT_DIR="spotify/.git" > GIT_WORK_TREE="spotify" git reset HEAD > 22:10:53.020525 trace.c:315 setup: git_dir: spotify/.git > 22:10:53.020605 trace.c:316 setup: git_common_dir: spotify/.git > 22:10:53.020616 trace.c:317 setup: worktree: > /home/rafasc/.cache/aurutils/sync/spotify > 22:10:53.020625 trace.c:318 setup: cwd: > /home/rafasc/.cache/aurutils/sync > 22:10:53.020635 trace.c:319 setup: prefix: (null) > 22:10:53.020644 git.c:344 trace: built-in: git 'reset' 'HEAD' > fatal: couldn't read spotify/.git/packed-refs: Not a directory > > The issue seems to bisect to f57f37e2e1bf11ab4cdfd221ad47e961ba9353a0 > I can't pinpoint why this particular repo is behaving differently. CC-ing Duy, the author of that commit.
