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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cloning into an existing, non-empty directory?
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:37:58 -0500
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> Richard Hartmann wrote:

>>> 2) running `git pull` as suggested results in:
>>>
>>> fatal: /usr/lib/git-core/git-pull cannot be used without a working tree.
[...]
> Does this patch help?
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150986

That's what I was thinking of but on second thought that can't be it.
Richard's script does chdir into $GIT_WORK_TREE.

So it's still puzzling, and a reduced testcase would be nice. :)

Thanks, both, and sorry for the nonsense.