checkout: don't require a work tree when checking out into a new one For normal use cases, it does not make sense for 'checkout' to work on a bare repository, without a worktree. But "checkout --to" is an exception because it _creates_ a new worktree. Allow this option to run on bare repositories. People who check out from a bare repository should remember that core.logallrefupdates is off by default and it should be turned back on. `--to` cannot do this automatically behind the user's back because some user may deliberately want no reflog. For people interested in repository setup/discovery code, is_bare_repository_cfg (aka "core.bare") is unchanged by this patch, which means 'true' by default for bare repos. Fortunately when we get the repo through a linked checkout, is_bare_repository_cfg is never used. So all is still good. [nd: commit message] Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 5dfdbda..8c5276c 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -1364,6 +1364,9 @@ if (opts.new_worktree_mode) opts.new_worktree = NULL; + if (!opts.new_worktree) + setup_work_tree(); + if (conflict_style) { opts.merge = 1; /* implied */ git_xmerge_config("merge.conflictstyle", conflict_style, NULL);
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index 18fbf79..160896a 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ { "check-ignore", cmd_check_ignore, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE }, { "check-mailmap", cmd_check_mailmap, RUN_SETUP }, { "check-ref-format", cmd_check_ref_format }, - { "checkout", cmd_checkout, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE }, + { "checkout", cmd_checkout, RUN_SETUP }, { "checkout-index", cmd_checkout_index, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE}, { "cherry", cmd_cherry, RUN_SETUP },
diff --git a/t/t2025-checkout-to.sh b/t/t2025-checkout-to.sh index e2db078..4bd1df4 100755 --- a/t/t2025-checkout-to.sh +++ b/t/t2025-checkout-to.sh
@@ -81,4 +81,19 @@ ) ' +test_expect_success 'checkout --to from a bare repo' ' + ( + git clone --bare . bare && + cd bare && + git checkout --to ../there2 -b bare-master master + ) +' + +test_expect_success 'checkout from a bare repo without --to' ' + ( + cd bare && + test_must_fail git checkout master + ) +' + test_done