Merge branch 'vd/fsck-submodule-url-test'

[thirdparty/git.git] / setup.c

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index b38702718fbc8db7bb1ba718ecd69b7c99da80e4..f4ad53d5454847951f2c55d02e9418484fdadac2 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -1926,23 +1926,8 @@ void create_reference_database(unsigned int ref_storage_format,
        struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT;
        int reinit = is_reinit();
 
-       /*
-        * We need to create a "refs" dir in any case so that older versions of
-        * Git can tell that this is a repository. This serves two main purposes:
-        *
-        * - Clients will know to stop walking the parent-directory chain when
-        *   detecting the Git repository. Otherwise they may end up detecting
-        *   a Git repository in a parent directory instead.
-        *
-        * - Instead of failing to detect a repository with unknown reference
-        *   format altogether, old clients will print an error saying that
-        *   they do not understand the reference format extension.
-        */
-       safe_create_dir(git_path("refs"), 1);
-       adjust_shared_perm(git_path("refs"));
-
        repo_set_ref_storage_format(the_repository, ref_storage_format);
-       if (refs_init_db(&err))
+       if (refs_init_db(get_main_ref_store(the_repository), 0, &err))
                die("failed to set up refs db: %s", err.buf);
 
        /*