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.