From: Thorsten von Eicken <tve@rightscale.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 21:41:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <556004DE.7080504@rightscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150523022256.GA17789@lanh>
On 5/22/2015 7:22 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:03:48PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> As far as I know, GIT_DIR was prepared as a mechanism to point at
>> another .git directory that does not live inside the working tree, not
>> as a mechanism to rename it to arbitrary name. E.g.
>>
>> $ git init
>> $ mv .git .svn
>> $ GIT_DIR=$(pwd)/.svn ; export GIT_DIR
>>
>> is not expected to work.
>
> ++
> +Note that if GIT_DIR is set explicitly to a directory inside working
> +tree, the directory name must be ".git".
This is not at all what I was hoping to hear, but thanks for the response.
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-23 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-23 1:03 git status doesn't ignore GIT_DIR directory? Thorsten von Eicken
2015-05-23 2:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-23 2:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-23 4:41 ` Thorsten von Eicken [this message]
2015-05-23 11:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-23 5:39 ` Mike Hommey
2015-05-23 11:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-05-23 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-23 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-23 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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