From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Convissor Subject: Re: hitting home directory's parent Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20090822150542.GA29507@panix.com> References: <20090821200503.GA19660@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 22 17:05:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MesAA-0002Xb-GG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:05:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755354AbZHVPFm (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755329AbZHVPFl (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:41 -0400 Received: from mail1.panix.com ([166.84.1.72]:60577 "EHLO mail1.panix.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754990AbZHVPFl (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:41 -0400 Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6611F082 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix5.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 14662) id 5F91224202; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:43 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Duy: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:10:18AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > I guess it tried to find .git directory upward. I think you can set > GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to make it stop at /home/danielc. Excerpt from > git.txt That didn't change the situation. I did read a bit farther in the manual and initialized a new repository. Issuing "git --help" once inside that new repository works. Requiring the --help command to be called from inside a repository, or even that it's looking for a repository at all, seems unwise. All it should do is display the usage information and exit. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409