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From: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <carlos@cmartin.tk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: John Twilley <mathuin@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:42:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111130194233.GD12096@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vaa7dquva.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> subdirectory "blah/.git"), but I do not think this is likely to change, as
> I suspect that people and scripts are relying on the current behaviour to
> be able to do something like this:
> 
>     cd /pub/scm/git/git.git ;# this is a bare repository
>     mkdir /var/tmp/git
>     git --work-tree=/var/tmp/git checkout
> 

This is in fact the way that many (or from what I can see the most
popular) tutorials for abusing git as a deployment system tell you to
run it (though more often than not setting GIT_WORKTREE in the
environment).

   cmn


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 17:43 BUG: "--work-tree blah" does not imply "--git-dir blah/.git" or fix misleading error message John Twilley
2011-11-30 18:22 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-11-30 19:13   ` John Twilley
2011-12-01 14:30     ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-11-30 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-30 19:42   ` Carlos Martín Nieto [this message]
2011-11-30 20:45     ` Junio C Hamano

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