Does this work with bare repos?

[ajkessel]

Is it possible to use GitBSLR to follow symlinks in bare repos? I have no .git folder and if I point GITBSLR_GIT_DIR at the same location as I use for --git-dir in my git command, I get the "git directory path must end with .git" error. Is this an inherent limitation of GitBSLR?

[Alcaro]

It's a security restriction. GitBSLR doesn't want to create symlinks to any .git, not just the current one; it could get messy if anything follows them and writes something weird to a submodule's .git/hooks/.

That's the only reason that restriction exists. If you're only operating on trusted repositories (i.e. ones that don't contain symlinks to somewhere unexpected), it's safe to delete that check (line 422). (You may also want to remove the one at line 899.)

[ajkessel]

Thanks, that works. Perhaps you want to allow another environment variables that turns off the check if people want to use this with bare repos.