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From: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git gui does not open bare repositories
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:35:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6sp9ME0og0E-=oW6MBFMBv8hD0y8PpmdpyaV4qqr7Mb7c5VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB9Jk9BivVrH7daMR=u5Y6Ut=pZGRBcgKNZ_afZ53XFxhFBnZw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Please remember to reply to all when discussing things on the git mailing list.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Angelo Borsotti
<angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I apologise for having used the wrong script to reproduce the error.
> This is  the right one:
>
> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
> $ mkdir remote.git
>
> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest (master)
> $ cd remote.git
>
> angelo@ANGELO-PC /d/gtest/remote.git (master)
> $ git init --bare
> Initialized empty Git repository in d:/gtest/remote.git/
>
> Now with the git gui I try to open the d:/gtest/remote.git/ and
> receive the message
> that it is not a git repository.
>
> I understand that the gui is mostly aimed to non-bare repositories,
> but in such a case
> it would be better it could give me a message like, e.g. "could not
> open a bare repository"
> instead of telling me that it is not a git repository (I thought my
> bare repository was
> corrupt, and tried to figure out what was wrong with it).


Actually git-gui 0.16.0 is telling me that it cannot use bare
repositories, much in the vein of what I wrote earlier. Don't know if
it matters that I'm on Linux though.


Frans

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-28  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-28  7:50 git gui does not open bare repositories Angelo Borsotti
2012-09-28  8:08 ` Frans Klaver
     [not found]   ` <CAB9Jk9BivVrH7daMR=u5Y6Ut=pZGRBcgKNZ_afZ53XFxhFBnZw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-28  8:35     ` Frans Klaver [this message]
2012-09-28  8:44       ` Stefan Näwe
2012-09-28  8:56         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-09-28 12:09         ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-09-28 14:15           ` Ben Smith-Mannschott
2012-09-28 16:46             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-09-28 19:43               ` Ben Smith-Mannschott
2012-09-28 18:22             ` Angelo Borsotti
2012-10-01  6:22         ` Stefan Näwe

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