On 11/20/23 00:24, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Adam Majer <adamm@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
In a garbage collected bare git repository, the refs/ subdirectory is
empty. In use-cases when such a repository is directly added into
another repository, it no longer is detected as valid.
Josh & Glen [*], isn't this a layout that we explicitly discourage and
eventually plan to forbid anyway?
*1* who worked on e35f202b (setup: trace bare repository setups, 2023-05-01)
This is fair enough. Completely removing embedded git repos would cause
some pain in test suites as it was discussed in the thread for that
commit[1]. Gitea (for example) has a few dozen embedded bare
repositories for tests.
In either case, running `git gc` on a bare repository makes it no longer
detectable as a git repository after checkout, GIT_DIR or not. This
seems to be unintentional and not linked to the other discussion.
- Adam
