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gitui does not work inside a sparse checkout #1226
Description
Describe the bug
Trying to launch gitui inside a sparse checkout produces the following message:
invalid path
please run gitui inside of a non-bare git repositoryTo Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
$ git clone \
--depth 1 \
--filter=blob:none \
--sparse \
--branch master \
https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui.git \
~/gitui
$ cd ~/gitui
$ git sparse-checkout set --stdin <<EOF
.gitignore
EOF
$ gitui
invalid path
please run gitui inside of a non-bare git repository
$ lazygit
...just works...Expected behavior
gitui should detect the repo and launch without error.
Screenshots
None
Context (please complete the following information):
- Ubuntu 20.04
- gitui 0.20.1
- Rust version: Not installed
Additional context
Installed via nix.
Activity
extrawurst commentedon May 11, 2022
see libgit2/libgit2#2263
now also documented as of ad0ec7e
extrawurst commentedon Sep 18, 2022
will close until upstream supports this
melMass commentedon Mar 14, 2023
Seems like this is the upstream PR to follow: libgit2/libgit2#6394
clarify