Suggest unsetting core.bare when using new-workdir on a bare repository

diff --git a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
index 119cff98597f6539e88327bcafaa0bd5a88c020e..c6e154a84fb5bdd4ed456ac3fdf94c54466fc5f0 100755 (executable)
--- a/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
+++ b/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ case "$git_dir" in
        ;;
 esac
 
+# don't link to a configured bare repository
+isbare=$(git --git-dir="$git_dir" config --bool --get core.bare)
+if test ztrue = z$isbare
+then
+       die "\"$git_dir\" has core.bare set to true," \
+               " remove from \"$git_dir/config\" to use $0"
+fi
+
 # don't link to a workdir
 if test -L "$git_dir/config"
 then