do not include bare repos in recent repos list

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go b/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
index dba8ac260..6d9e535a3 100644
--- a/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
+++ b/pkg/gui/recent_repos_panel.go
@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ func (gui *Gui) handleCreateRecentReposMenu() error {
 // updateRecentRepoList registers the fact that we opened lazygit in this repo,
 // so that we can open the same repo via the 'recent repos' menu
 func (gui *Gui) updateRecentRepoList() error {
+	if gui.GitCommand.IsBareRepo() {
+		// we could totally do this but it would require storing both the git-dir and the
+		// worktree in our recent repos list, which is a change that would need to be
+		// backwards compatible
+		gui.Log.Info("Not appending bare repo to recent repo list")
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	recentRepos := gui.Config.GetAppState().RecentRepos
 	currentRepo, err := os.Getwd()
 	if err != nil {