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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Add a function to set a non-default work tree
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> How should the setting of new work tree from sideways using this interface
>> interact with bareness of the repository?
>
> I'm only using it before any initialization and when I'm going to force 
> the repository (which doesn't even exist yet; I haven't set git_dir let 
> alone created it, let alone looked at its configuration) to be bare, so I 
> hadn't considered that.

That is not quite an explanation that builds confidence in a patch that
adds a generic-sounding helper function that could be called by later
callers.  Doesn't it have a very tempting name for people to call?