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I've been investigating ways to implement a [[/todo/direct_mode_guard]].
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Preventing a stray `git commit -a` or `git add` doing bad things in a
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direct mode repository seems increasingly important.
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First, considered moving `.git`, so git won't know it's a git repository.
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This doesn't seem *too* hard to do, but there will certainly be unexpected
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places that assume `.git` is the directory name.
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I dislike it more and more as I think about it though, because it moves
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direct mode git-annex toward being entirely separate from git, and I don't
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want to write my own version control system. Nor do I want to complicate
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the git ecosystem with tools needing to know about git-annex to work in
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such a repository.
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So, I'm happy that one of the other ideas I tried today seems quite
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promising. Just set core.bare=true in a direct mode repository. This nicely
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blocks all git commands that operate on the working tree from doing
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anything, which is just what's needed in direct mode, since they don't know
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how to handle the direct mode files. But it lets all git commands and other
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tools that don't touch the working tree continue to be used. You can even
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run `git log file` in such a repository (surprisingly!)
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It also gives an easy out for anyone who really wants to use git commands
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that operate on the work tree of their direct mode repository, by just
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passing `-c core.bare=false`. And it's really easy to implement in
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git-annex too -- it can just notice if a repo has core.bare and
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annex.direct both set, and pass that parameter to every git command it
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runs. I should be able to get by with only modifying 2 functions to
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implement this.
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