From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 14:26:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160517182645.GA27396@kitenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy478wptr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> writes:
>
> > Appears to be a bug in git. Seems that it's assuming GIT_INDEX_FILE is
> > relative to the top of the worktree and not to the CWD.
>
> I think that has always been the case. You can always specify it as
> relative to the top. Of course, you can use absolute.
I think it *has* always been that way, but is there anything in the
documentation that indicates this is the case? This could well be best
fixed in the documentation.
Hmm, at least GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY also behaves this way.
(OTOH, GIT_DIR does not behave this way).
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see shy jo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-17 17:18 GIT_INDEX_FILE relative path breaks in subdir Joey Hess
2016-05-17 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-17 18:26 ` Joey Hess [this message]
2016-05-22 19:04 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 16:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 17:29 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 18:52 ` Joey Hess
2016-05-23 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano
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