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From: "Vusich, Joseph" <jvusich@amazon.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug: conflicting core.bare setting causes segfault during bare clone
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 11:48:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6962C073-60A9-4FCB-8FAA-02549A78547D@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4khrg1qx.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>


> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I will admit being a bit interested in how this was discovered, since it
> seems like an odd configuration to have, so if you can share, I'd
> appreciate it, if only to satisfy my curiosity.

Quite by accident. A machine-generated .gitconfig with some "default"
values, which inadvertently included core.bare=false.


> "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> I had the same reaction.  Forcing everything to be bare is quite
> unusual.

Technically non-bare in this case, although the field seems to be ignored
in the global config, at least prior to Git 2.30.0. In any case, it never
had any observable effect, and was therefore never noticed.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-03  0:06 bug: conflicting core.bare setting causes segfault during bare clone Vusich, Joseph
2021-03-03 23:59 ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-04  1:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04 11:48     ` Vusich, Joseph [this message]
2021-03-08 13:17 ` [PATCH] builtin/init-db: handle bare clones when core.bare set to false brian m. carlson
2021-03-08 16:43   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-03-08 23:22     ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-10  1:11 ` [PATCH v2] " brian m. carlson
2021-03-10 23:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-10 23:33     ` brian m. carlson

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