On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 07:30:36PM -0500, Michael Tutty wrote: > Hey all, > I'm working on some server-side software to do a merge. By using git > worktree it's possible to check out a given branch for a bare repo and > merge another branch into it. It's very fast, even with large > repositories. > > The only exception seems to be merging to master. When I do git > worktree add /tmp/path/to/worktree master I get an error: > > [fatal: 'master' is already checked out at '/path/to/bare/repo'] > > But this is clearly not true, git worktree list gives: > > [/path/to/bare/repo (bare)] > > ...and of course, there is no work tree at that path, just the bare > repo files you'd expect.
A bare repo still has a HEAD, which by default points to refs/heads/master. That's what's it complaining about. So the question is, should there be an exception for the branch 'checked out' on a bare reposity.
