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From: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git: add missing info about --git-dir command-line option
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:04:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C8B92F.8020408@gmail.com> (raw)

The Documentation/git.txt file, in the GIT_DIR environment variable
section, did not mentioned that this value can also be set using the
--git-dir command line option.
---
 Documentation/git.txt | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index e643683..60db292 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ git so take care if using Cogito etc.
 	If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it
 	specifies a path to use instead of the default `.git`
 	for the base of the repository.
+	The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value.
  'GIT_WORK_TREE'::
 	Set the path to the working tree.  The value will not be
-- 
1.8.0.1.347.gf94c325.dirty

             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-12 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12 17:04 Manlio Perillo [this message]
2012-12-12 19:35 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git: add missing info about --git-dir command-line option Junio C Hamano
2012-12-13 18:00   ` Manlio Perillo
2012-12-14 17:26   ` Manlio Perillo

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