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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: support atomic operation with --separate-git-dir
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Duy Nguyen wrote:

>                                                               And
> because junk_work_tree is not set up for --bare, I guess we still need
> to fix "--bare --separate-git-dir" case, or forbid it because i'm not
> sure if that case makes sense at all.

Forbidding it makes sense to me.  If some day we want a git command to
create a .git file, I don't think it should be spelled as "git clone
--bare --separate-git-dir <repo>".  In the meantime,

	printf '%s\n' 'gitdir: /path/to/repo' >repo.git

works fine.