Re: [RFC] require-work-tree wants more than what its name says

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> So do we need more tests for git-submodule to find out, or is this a
> hint to the submodule people to chime in? If so, should they be cc-ed?

I could queue a version without any conversion of in-tree users, so that
stakeholders can verify and convert their use of require-work-tree to the
new saner alternative one by one.  Actually I tend to like that better.

I am not convinced myself if it is a sane use case to run "git pull" from
a totally random place and let fetch and merge magically happen somewhere
completely unrelated to your current working directory only because you
have GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE set to begin with.  After getting into a
habit of relying on these environment variables so much that you do not
even think about their existence, you will reach a point where you have no
idea where to go offhand when a merge conflict actually happens and you
have to go there to fix things up.