git-commit-vandalism/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
Shawn O. Pearce 2e4aef5893 Allow contrib new-workdir to link into bare repositories
On one particular system I like to keep a cluster of bare Git
repositories and spawn new-workdirs off of them.  Since the bare
repositories don't have working directories associated with them
they don't have a .git/ subdirectory that hosts the repository we
are linking to.

Using a bare repository as the backing repository for a workdir
created by this script does require that the user delete core.bare
from the repository's configuration file, so that Git auto-senses
the bareness of a repository based on pathname information, and
not based on the config file.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:27:21 -07:00

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#!/bin/sh
usage () {
echo "usage:" $@
exit 127
}
die () {
echo $@
exit 128
}
if test $# -lt 2 || test $# -gt 3
then
usage "$0 <repository> <new_workdir> [<branch>]"
fi
orig_git=$1
new_workdir=$2
branch=$3
# want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ...
git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null &&
git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) ||
die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!"
# don't link to a workdir
if test -L "$git_dir/config"
then
die "\"$orig_git\" is a working directory only, please specify" \
"a complete repository."
fi
# make sure the the links use full paths
git_dir=$(cd "$git_dir"; pwd)
# create the workdir
mkdir -p "$new_workdir/.git" || die "unable to create \"$new_workdir\"!"
# create the links to the original repo. explictly exclude index, HEAD and
# logs/HEAD from the list since they are purely related to the current working
# directory, and should not be shared.
for x in config refs logs/refs objects info hooks packed-refs remotes rr-cache
do
case $x in
*/*)
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$new_workdir/.git/$x")"
;;
esac
ln -s "$git_dir/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x"
done
# now setup the workdir
cd "$new_workdir"
# copy the HEAD from the original repository as a default branch
cp "$git_dir/HEAD" .git/HEAD
# checkout the branch (either the same as HEAD from the original repository, or
# the one that was asked for)
git checkout -f $branch