setting the work-tree of each bare repo

Question

As you can see below I have to set the work-tree of a bare repo:

cd barerepo
git status
fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

git --work-tree=/va         


        

Answer 1

Bare repos are not supposed to have a work tree, so git prints the "fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense" error message. Therefore, you need to set bare = false in the repo's config file.

user@host:~$ cd barerepo
user@host:~/barerepo$ git config --bool core.bare false
user@host:~/barerepo$ git config --path core.worktree /var/www/mywork

However, if barerepo did not previously exist, you should use this command instead:

git init --separate-git-dir=. /var/www/mywork

This command will also create a .git file in the work tree pointing to the git dir:

gitdir: /home/user/barerepo