On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:06:28 +0930, Geoff Russell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy > <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7/24/08, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For reasons which would take a while to explain, I'm building a repository > >> in a directory using "--git-dir=xxxx/.git --work-tree=." and > >> then doing an "mv xxxx/.git ./.git" and then trying to work with > >> that repository --- but can't > >> > >> Below is a sample script. The last line (git add) fails with > >> > >> fatal: unable to create > >> '/usr/local/AusTop/AuPrograms/AuServer/testgit/aaa/bbb/.git/index.lock': > >> No such file or directory > >> > >> git doesn't seem to realise that there is a .git back up the tree. > > > > It's because when you did git --work-tree=. init, worktree is stored > > in .git/config. The code that chdir() in setup_git_directory() > > probably forgot to chdir() back to toplevel worktree. Workaround could > > be just remove core.worktree in .git/config. > > Many thanks, the work-around works. I'm not sure if this is a bug or > a feature, but I'm happy either way. That depends on what the value of core.worktree is: - If it is '.', than I think it should be considered a bug in git init, because that value is just plain nonsense. - If it is '..', than it's a user error and the right thing is to just remove it when you relocate the .git directory. - If it was '/usr/local/AusTop/AuPrograms/AuServer/testgit/' than it would have worked, so it's not that. Best regards, Jan -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx> -- 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
