Re: [PATCH/RFH] Fix initialization of a bare repository

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Hi,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > how about this on top (or squashed):
> 
> Looks good.  On top of these two...
> 
> An earlier commit 6acbcb92 unfortunately defined --bare as a
> synonym to "export GIT_DIR=`pwd`", but I have to say that this
> was done without much thinking.

Hehe.  That was me, I guess...

> [...] when the user already had GIT_DIR pointing elsewhere,
> iow:
> 
> 	$ GIT_DIR=/some/where/foo.git git --bare command
> 
> or (worse yet)
> 
> 	$ git --git-dir=/some/where/foo.git --bare command
> 
> I think it should just keep using the existing value from the
> enviroment, instead of overriding.

Or it should conflict (which would be an uglier fix, I agree).

> *W*A*R*N*I*N*G*
> 
> This _CHANGES_ semantics, so it has a great risk of breaking
> people's scripts.  However, I have a suspicion that nobody
> relied on the insane behaviour.

Let's hope that your suspicion holds better than my worktree/gitdir 
suspicion...

In any case, ACK on your patch.

Ciao,
Dscho

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