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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Clean up work-tree handling
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:56:50 -0400
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> In related news, there is a long standing bug fixed: when in
> .git/bla/x.git/, which is a bare repository, git formerly assumed
> ../.. to be the appropriate git dir.

Heh.  I spent about 10 minutes last week trying to understand why
git-new-workdir was failing horribly on one user's system.

Turns out they once managed to do:

  cd /
  git init

a long, long, long time ago and just didn't notice it until now.  git
kept finding /.git rather than the .git it was supposed to locate,
which was a bare repository in $HOME/.storage-pool/dayjob.git.
 
-- 
Shawn.