Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This doesn't work as you expect. Its a chicken-and-egg problem. > > We haven't read the config yet because we aren't sure that the > > $_gitdir really is a git directory. Consequently, core.bare is > > always false. > > Isn't the config loaded on line 1053? No, that line is only run if there is no git repository here and we are opening the repository selection wizard. The load_config is to pull in the user's ~/.gitconfig. > Better ways to work around the issue? Break down and run the fork command here. We already ran two git-rev-parse calls at 1049,1050. One more here during startup isn't going to kill the world. The only problem is, you need to watch out for the git version. AFAIK git-gui still runs on git 1.5.0. Any option added since should be used only if its known to exist, or if there is a fallback that works almost as good. Or, we need to up our minimum version around line 842, and in the messages above in 756, 787, 789, 791, and their translations... -- Shawn. -- 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
